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Download full textShapiro, Michael C.; Schiffman, Harold F. – 1975
This work attempts to provide an overview of linguistic diversity in South Asia and to place this diversity in a cultural context. The work tries to describe the current state of knowledge concerning socially conditioned language variation in the subcontinent. Each of five major language families contains numerous mutually intelligible and…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bilingualism, Burmese, Code Switching (Language)
