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Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel's official language, is studied only in religious…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Jews
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Fishman, Joshua A.; Fishman, David E. – Linguistics, 1974
Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1; research supported by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Ford Foundation, and The Language Behavior Secion, Hebrew University. (DD)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Planning, Language Standardization, National Norms
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Bar-Adon, Aaron – 1971
The first waves of immigrants arriving in Palestine were faced with the problem of forming a new culture and creating a new language, actually, reviving Hebrew, an ancient language. The children were faced with creating their own traditions, games, and folklore; in so doing, through straight borrowing, spontaneous translation (loan translation),…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children