Cracks in the foundation of a language empire – the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland

2015/02/13 by Dónall Ó Riagáin · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Linguistic Variation and Morphology

paper · doi:10.1515/9783110408362.77

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Abstract

Cracks in the foundation of a language empire – the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland was published in Language Empires in Comparative Perspective on page 77.

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