Language planning from below: The case of the Tonga in Zimbabwe

Current Issues in Language Planning

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-439

  Makoni, Sinfree ^a   Makoni, Busi ^a   Nyika, Nicholus ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage; Discourses of authority; Indigenous language; Minority language; Tonga

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651008688     PISSN: 14664208     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14664200802354419     Document Type: Article

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