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Language Planning and Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor: Colonial Practice and Changing Language Ecologies.
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Hajek, John – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Provides an overview of language planning and the sociolinguistic environment in East Timor. Suggests that those with responsibility for planning show no interest in any holistic or global approach that might take into account all the indigenous languages of the region. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Reflections on Language Policy in African Countries with Portuguese as an Official Language.
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Vilela, Mario – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
Examines the place of Portuguese in Portugal's former African Colonies. Characterizes the postcolonial position of Portuguese in Africa as a complex relationship between Portuguese as the official language and the other languages of these countries. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Planning