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Language Status and Language Contact in Geolinguistic Perspective.

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Mackey, William Francis – 1972

This study presents the theories that contribute to what the author has called geolinguistics, a discipline that deals with the external fate of languages as they are distributed over the face of the globe. Such a study is relevant in terms of official language planning when legislators seek to impose a given language on people of varied…

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