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Salbrina Sharbawi; Noor Hasharina Hassan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Studies on Brunei Malay have made inconsistent findings: while some have asserted that this variety is thriving and is in no way endangered, others have found that its use is now waning. As the dynamics of family speech can inform what is happening linguistically at the community level, this study seeks to investigate the family language policies…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Thomas B. Pepinsky; Maya Ravindranath Abtahian; Abigail C. Cohn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective,…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Census Figures
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Bee Chin Ng; Mei Jing Jo Tan; Anne Pauwels; Francesco Cavallaro – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Studies on language shift in Singapore have focused on the language use within ethnic communities. However, despite increasing numbers of interethnic marriages, very few studies have explored the effect of such marriages on LS. This article explores the language practices within Malay-Chinese mixed marriages and examines how language policies in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Indonesian Languages, Second Language Learning
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Kroon, Sjaak; Kurvers, Jeanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This paper investigates language practices, language attitudes and identity belongings of East Timorese in the Netherlands. Data were gathered through a limited orally conducted sociolinguistic questionnaire and two in-depth interviews on the sociolinguistic trajectories of our participants. The questionnaire shows that second-generation East…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Attitudes, Immigrants
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Stern, Alissa Joy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
For a language to survive, it must be spoken and passed down to the next generation. But how can we engage teenagers--so crucial for language transmission--to use and value their local tongue when they are bombarded by pressures from outside and from within their society to only speak national and international languages? This paper analyses the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Language Maintenance, Cost Effectiveness