Indigenous language policies in social practice: The case of Navajo

Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties

Volumn 9781589014169, Issue , 2008, Pages 159-172

  McCarty, Teresa L ^a   Romero Little, Mary Eunice ^a   Zepeda, Ofelia ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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