Making a case for Tongan as an endangered language

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 446-473

  Otsuka, Yuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Endangered languages; Globalization; Language maintenance; Language shift; Polynesian; Tongan

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL TRADITION; GLOBALIZATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANGUAGE; NATION STATE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA;

EID: 34548269919     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2007.0064     Document Type: Article

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