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Peer reviewedNelde, Peter Hans – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Using Belgium as an example, argues that a linguistic ecological viewpoint is important for the description of linguistic/ethnic contact areas in which one or more languages are in danger of dying without any apparent political decisions. It is not as important for the description of stable, diglossic, or multilingual areas or for open bilingual…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Dutch, French, German
