Shifting Languages

(Part of the Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series)

by J. Joseph Errington

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Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers. This remarkable growth, unprecedented in the development world, is largely due to the forceful presence of state institutions that use, promote, and disseminate a language...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521634482

ISBN13:9780521634489

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Cultural Foreign Language Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Words, Language & Grammar

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