Multilingualism in the Northern Khmer Population of Thailand  

Oleh:

Smalley, William A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 2 (1988), page 395-408.
Fulltext: 10_02_Smalley_02.pdf (845.48KB)

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A survey of 262 villages in 58 districts of the three’provinccs of Northeastern Thailand where Northern Khmer is spoken revealed widespread multilingualism involving as many as four languages (Northern Khmer, Thai, Lao and Kuy). The nature and extent of this multilingualism was related to location of the district, education of respondents, sex, age and generation. Parents of respondents were markedly less multilingual and grandparents even less yet, indicating the direction of change. At the same time, the size of the population speaking Northern Khmer is now more than twice what it was thirty years ago. These facts support the position that Thai schools and other forces contributing to greater contact between Northern Khmer people and the national and regional majority are not eliminating Northern Khmer, but are extending participation in the hierarchy of multilingualism.

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