Base Language

[Elena Gapova]

Dear all,

in his book about the revival of Hebrew (Language at the Time of the
Revolution) Benjamin Harshav develops the idea of a "base language" (of a
society and an individual), which serves as a spoken language and the
language of oral and written information networks. I wonder if the concept
of and the term "base language" are completely his, or whether they are
used/developed by other scholars.

e.g.

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