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Direct linkJianlin Chen; Yu Liu; Yanyan Xiong; Min He – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present study tested whether the switch costs of production-based language switching tasks by trilinguals are due to competition from outside language schemas or from within language systems. We recruited 90 Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals in 10th grade in a Tibetan middle school in China to name digits and number words using different…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language)
Salehi, Mohammad; Neysani, Aydin – Cogent Education, 2017
Azerbaijani and Turkish are two closely-related languages from Oguz branch of Turkic languages, which are said to be mutually intelligible. Regarding this background, we designed an experiment within the framework of receptive multilingualism to investigate the role of linguistic factors in intelligibility of the Turkish language to Iranian…
Descriptors: Turkish, Turkic Languages, Receptive Language, Multilingualism
RAUN, ALO; SAARESTE, ANDRUS – 1965
THIS TEXT COMPRISES A SURVEY OF THE ESTONIAN LANGUAGE, WHICH IS GROUPED HERE WITH LIVONIAN, VOTIC, AND A PART OF WESTERN FINNISH, TO FORM THE SOUTHWESTERN BRANCH OF THE FINNIC (OR BALTO-FINNIC) LANGUAGES. THE AUTHORS' CLASSIFICATIONS AND A HISTORY OF THE STUDIES WHICH HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN ESTONIAN ARE PRESENTED, FOLLOWED BY A PRESENTATION OF…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Peer reviewedMekacha, Rugatiri D. K. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
It is argued that the relationship between Kiswahili and ethnic community languages in Tanzania is not diglossic. The paper applies definitions/redefinitions to the Tanzanian sociolinguistic profile, considers Tanzanian language policy, suggests the basic tenets of diglossia do not apply, and proposes another term for the Kiswahili relationship…
Descriptors: African Languages, Definitions, Diglossia, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedIntegrated Education, 1974
A description of the various ethnic groups who comprise each of the four major language families represented in China--the Sino Tibetan, Altaic, Indo-European and the Austroasiatic. (EH)
Descriptors: Austro Asiatic Languages, Chinese Culture, Ethnic Groups, Indo European Languages
Download full textBrann, Conrad Max Benedict – 1978
The linguistic situation in Nigeria might be represented as a pyramid with a base composed of 400-500 native languages of which about 100 have been alphabetized. Of these, 51 with more than 100,000 speakers each, are considered regional languages; ten, with more than 1 million speakers each, are considered inter-regional languages; and three…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism, Educational Change
Australian Dept. of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra. – 1995
The booklet describes efforts to preserve Australian Aboriginal languages and culture, profiles individuals who have a significant role in these efforts, contains individuals' commentaries on Aboriginal language issues, gives background information on the languages and language groups, and describes programs and organizations supporting the…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
KRADER, LAWRENCE – 1963
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME IS TO INTRODUCE THE READER TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA, WITH A SECONDARY FOCUS ON THE CHANGES WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE PERIODS OF TSARIST AND SOVIET RULE. CHAPTERS ARE ARRANGED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER--(I) ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY, (II) LANGUAGES, WITH APPENDED INFORMATION ON TURKIC…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Area Studies, Asian History, Communism
Briere, Eugene J.; Brown, Richard H. – 1971
This paper describes the activities to develop norms for the interpretation of tests designed to indicate proficiency in English for Amerindian children attending grades 3 through 6 in the Bureau of Indian Affairs' schools. The objectives of the test battery are described. The first is to identify the Amerindian child who needs special training in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Educational Diagnosis
Collis, Dermid R. F., Ed. – 1990
This work is a study of Arctic languages written in an interdisciplinary manner. Part of the Unesco Arctic project aimed at safeguarding the linguistic heritage of Arctic peoples, the book is the outcome of three Unesco meetings at which conceptual approaches to and practical plans for the study of Arctic cultures and languages were worked out.…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Canada Natives, Economic Development, Ethnic Groups
