Zeeuws-Flemish in Brazil:multilingualism and language decay
In this paper, we present the linguistic and cultural description of the Brazilian Zeeuws-Flemish population in Espírito Santo, which today has no more than 20 speakers. The Zeeuws-Flemish speakers, hundreds of whom left Zeeland in 1858-1862, have faced hardship and difficulty in adaptation and integration into Brazilian society ever since their arrival, with their language threatened not only by Brazilian Portuguese, but also by Brazilian Pomeranian, somewhat of a lingua franca among the Germanic Protestant community in the region. In this paper we present a sociolinguistic survey of the Braz... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Schaffel bremenkamp , E , Rys , K , Nevins , A & Postma , G J 2017 , ' Zeeuws-Flemish in Brazil : multilingualism and language decay ' , Gragoatá , pp. 435-472 . < http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/852/651 > |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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