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Wurm, Stephen A. – 1978
The majority of the languages spoken in Papua New Guinea are highly diverse, belong to many unrelated groups, and are spoken by small language communities. This situation has resulted in widespread multilingualism and the emergence of "lingue franche," including the police-type, such as Hiri Motu. Hiri Motu, adopted as a symbol by the…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Planning, Language Role
Download full textMagner, Thomas F. – Canadian Slavic Studies
Yugoslavia, a country with a population of about 20,000,000, has as official languages Macedonian, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. The latter is the cause of much controversy, for while Croatian and Serbian indisputably have a common linguistic base, the political and economic tensions between the two "nationalities" augment disagreement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Cyrillic Alphabet, Dialect Studies
