Language Planning and Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor: Colonial Practice and Changing Language Ecologies.

Hajek, John

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ERIC Number: EJ629563

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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Language Planning and Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor: Colonial Practice and Changing Language Ecologies.

Hajek, John

Current Issues in Language Planning, v1 n3 p400-14 2000

Provides an overview of language planning and the sociolinguistic environment in East Timor. Suggests that those with responsibility for planning show no interest in any holistic or global approach that might take into account all the indigenous languages of the region. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indonesian, Language Planning, Portuguese, Sociolinguistics, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Timor-Leste

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