The handbook of multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa edited by Alireza Korangy, Evgeniya Gutova

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korangy, Alireza, editor.

Gutova, Evgeniya, editor.

Series:

Springer handbooks in languages and linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African languages.

Multilingualism--Africa.

Multilingualism.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Singapore Springer 2025

Summary:

This handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context.It covers multilingualism, language and identity, language endangerment, language shift, language maintenance, language contact, diglossia, language decline, language death, language vitality, and much more in..

Contents:

Insertional codeswitching in two triglossic speech communities in Ghana

Tamazight

Language endangerment in Cameroon

Language Vitality as the Outcome of Language Contact

Language Endangerment and Vitality among the Hadzabe of Tanzania

Two case studies of language endangerment and maintenance in urban and rural Cte dIvoire

Fedwet

From masquerades to modern crises

Expressing placement and removal events

Multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in southern Chad

Swahili and its influence on identities of speakers of other languages in Tanzania

Language endangerment, identity and the challenging issue of multilingual education in Africa

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Other Edition:

Print version: 9789819647286

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9789819647293

9819647290

OCLC:

1531949376

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