Reversing language shift: Celtic languages today - any evidence?

Journal of Celtic Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 109-132

  MacKinnon, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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