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Peer reviewedAgnew, John A. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 1981
Argues that language shift appears to correlate highly with the development or nondevelopment of political movements based on language issues. Three major Celtic languages are described to illustrate this: Scottish Gaelic, Irish, and Welsh. Degree of politicalness of language issues seems to correlate inversely with the rate of language shift.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
