Community languages : a handbook

Author(s)

• Horvath, Barbara M.
• Vaughan, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Community languages : a handbook

Barbara M. Horvath and Paul Vaughan

（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 67）

Multilingual Matters, c1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume contains sociological profiles of 58 languages and includes each language's history, relationship with other languages and relevant aspects of the sociology of the speech community. The majority of languages spoken by migrants who have moved to English-speaking countries since the end of World War II are included.

Table of Contents

Preface Sociolinguistic Profiles: A Guide for Multicultural Policymakers Albanian Arabic Armenian Assyrian (Syriac) Bengali Bulgarian Byelorussian Cantonese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Ionian Fijian Filipino Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Kannada Khmer Korean Kurdish Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maltese Mandarin Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

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Details

• NCID: BA12433224
• ISBN:
  • 1853590916
• LCCN: 90006276
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Clevedon ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: x, 276 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 801.03
  • LCC : P40
  • DC20 : 306.4/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : Linguistic minorities -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0388721X