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Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia

Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

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ISBN10: 0367029545
ISBN13: 9780367029548
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or 731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 600 ethnicities spread across 17,504 islands in the archipelago. Smaller, locally used indigenous languages jostle for survival alongside Indonesian, which is the national language, regional lingua francas, major indigenous languages, heritage languages, sign languages and world languages such as English, Arabic and Mandarin, not to mention emerging linguistic varieties and practices of language mixing. How does the government manage these languages in different domains such as education, the media, the workplace and the public while balancing concerns over language endangerment and the need for participation in the global community?

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