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Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival

Conservative attitudes toward loanwords and toward change in grammar often hamper efforts to revitalize endangered languages (Tiwi, Australia); and incompatible conservatisms can separate educated revitalizers, interested in historicity, from remaining speakers interested in locally authentic idioma...

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Published in:	Language in society 1994-12, Vol.23 (4), p.479-494
Main Author:	Dorian, Nancy C.
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Subjects:	Children Coinage Communities Conservatism Cultural influence Dialects Indigenous languages Language Language change Language revival Minority groups Native languages Revival Words
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