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Fernandez, Sue; Clyne, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
There have been few Australian studies of language maintenance amongst immigrant languages from the Indian subcontinent. The present study focuses on Tamil speakers in Melbourne from Sri Lanka or India, who are Hindus or Christians. Tamil is a pluricentric language that has been under the domination of English in these countries, at least amongst…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Maintenance, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries