The role of employment in Gaelic language maintenance and development
The thesis contends that the fundamental problem affecting the status and condition of minority languages is the lack of a sound economic base, due, historically, to a decline in the speech-communities' access to resources and the power to exploit them. In contrast, majority languages are suppo...
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University of Edinburgh
1995
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651210 |