The lifecycle of Sri Lanka Malay

The aim of this paper is to document the forces that led first to the decay and then the revival of the ancestral language of the Malay diaspora of Sri Lanka. We first sketch the background of the origins of the language in terms of intense contact and multilingual transfer; then analyze the forces...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ansaldo, Umberto, Lim, Lisa
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24605
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85207