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CSEAS Friday Forum

Language Shift and Language Death in Island Southeast Asia

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Date
Friday, January 23, 2009
Time
12 p.m.
Location
Description
"From the earliest historical records of the Southeast Asian archipelago, we can read about language shift and even language change, whether because of genocide, natural disaster or, more likely, changes in speakers’ attitudes about languages. Language allegiance shifts in almost imperceptible but accumulative stages, sometimes slowly and often rapidly, such as in Maluku and Kalimantan (Indonesia), the cases discussed in this paper."
Cost
Free

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