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L1 Attrition and Repair in Remnant Language Islands: The Case of Kyanga (Eastern Mande, Niger Congo).
- Source :
- Journal of Language Contact; 2023, Vol. 16 Issue 2/3, p373-393, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Sociolinguistically, isolation can be seen as a speech-community event which is commonly the result of migration, e.g., if speakers from a larger speech community migrate into a language island, leading to contact-induced variation. Another type of language island results from extensive language shift when a formerly larger language area shrinks to a remnant speech community, an enclave. The literature shows, however, that in both cases ethno-linguistic vitality is precarious, and that the impact of language contact is observable at all levels. Nevertheless, the question arises as to whether contact-induced variation is sociolinguistically distinct from variation in an enclave island. The paper describes the enregisterment of semi-speech and repair strategies similar to 'L1 creolisation' in an endangered Eastern Mande language, Kyanga, spoken on the border of Benin/Nigeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ISLANDS
CODE switching (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE contact
SPEECH
LANGUAGE attrition
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19552629
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 2/3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Language Contact
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177323302
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01602012