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Language Mixing on Radio (Mis)Understood
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Mawelle, Indira – Language Awareness, 2020
The commercial Sinhala-medium FM radio practice of code-mixing between Sinhala and English is criticised by some of the mainstream Sinhala-speaking groups of Sri Lanka as unrestrained and thus causing the degeneration of the native language of Sinhala. Regardless of this disapproval, this new style of code-mixing has now spread into the FM media…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language), Indo European Languages