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Direct linkBovingdon, Roderick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
This paper outlines the influences that led to new ethnolect formation among an immigrant group, the Maltese, in Australia. Their sociolinguistic background and new linguistic environment brought about a divergence, particularly in terminology, from Standard Maltese, and necessitated the compilation of a glossary of the new ethnolect, Maltraljan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, English (Second Language), Immigrants
