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Mafela, Lily. 2009. Changing livelihoods, language use and language shift amongst Basarwa of Botswana. The International Journal of Multilingualism 6 (3) : 229–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language shift | language status | language use | social status

Language as a subject

Languages, Basarwa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study discusses how the low status Basarwa of Botswana had to appropriate the dominant national Setswana language in order to mediate their socio-economic marginalisation, and how this deleteriously affected their Basarwa minority languages and overall socio-cultural identity.