[Corpora-List] Re: Minor(ity) Language

[Nicholas Sanders]

Nice point. Swedish in Finland would be an example of the language of  
recent migrants becoming a minority language (OK, not very recent)  
and the Swedes were once the dominant group too.


On 9 Mar 2006, at 16:02, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Still, much of social theory has (in my view unfortunately) adopted  
> the idea that minority languages are the languages of "ethnic"  
> minorities that have settled on a given territory for a longer  
> period of time: Inuit in Canada, Slovenes in Austria, and so on. In  
> contrast, languages of recent migrants are hardly ever considered  
> minority languages (Britain is an exception to some degree),  
> especially if these migrants are dispersed throughout the territory  
> of the state.



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