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Re: [OT] Terminology (RE: [Mt-list] NLP for (African) "pi-languages", not "minority languages")

Francis Tyers
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:28:41 -0700

> though we wouldn't think to call it, or Spanish or English, etc. As Francis
> puts it, "situational" minority languages. But that just shows how dependent
> the term is on context.

To avoid taking credit for this, I took the term from Peter Trudgill's
paper, "Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in
contemporary Europe", Int. J. App. Ling. 1992.

:)

Fran

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