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The Ecology of French in Australia
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Ritchie, Annabelle – Babel, 2004
Language ecology, a term developed by Haugen (2001), describes the relationship between languages and the environment in which they exist; that is, how they grow, change, interact and adapt in a Darwinian-like quest for survival. Of the 6000 or so languages in existence today, some are spoken by vast numbers of people, but others are used by very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Sociolinguistics, Language Maintenance