majority language

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majority language

(mă-jor′ĭt-ē)

The language spoken by most of the people living in a multilingual nation.

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The Welsh language is one of the special qualities of the national park and is a majority language in Snowdonia, spoken by approximately 60% of residents.

FURY AS WELSH WORDS ON SIGNS PAINTED OVER

Assouline explores the impact of ideology on language contact in the context of a linguistic minority that opposes the majority language.

Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community: Yiddish and Hebrew Among the Ultra-Orthodox

filed a human rights complaint after a series of condo meetings were held in Mandarin only, given that it was the majority language in the building.

Can a bilingual province become a bilingual people? New Brunswick's image as an oasis of linguistic harmony masks some complex issues

In Germany, immigrants immediately and intensively used media in the majority language, in contrast to the immigrants in Israel.

Dan Caspi and Nelly Elias (Eds.), Ethnic Minorities and Media in the Holy Land

Frequently referred to as a "locale," this combination of factors could define a country and its majority language or a domestic market with a minority language.

Zen and the art of localizing code and content

This idea comes to prominence in the idea that speakers of the majority language have a strong sense of identification that can lead to wider language involvement and language vitality in any given community (Giles & Johnson, 1987).

Empowerment of refugees by language: can ESL learners affect the target culture?

Spanish is the majority language, and English is taught as a foreign language.

Li use, lexical richness, accuracy and syntactic complexity in the oral production of CLIL and NON-CLIL Learners of English/Uso de la Li, riqueza lexica, precision y complejidad sintactica en la produccion oral de aprendices de ingles en contextos AICLE y NO-AICLE

In this article I argue that interpreters are needed not only by ethnic minority children who speak the majority language either poorly or not at all, but also, and perhaps counter-intuitively, by a broader group of ethnic minority children and their families.

Interpreted communication with children in public-sector services

The findings appear to demonstrate a shift toward the society's majority language.

Perspectives vs. Reality of heritage language development: Voices from second-generation Korean-American high school students

Rwanda, unlike most African countries, has always had one majority language and culture, as Jacqueline Musiitwa explains.

Leveraging language for Rwanda's development

The project will focus on teacher education for the majority language (e.

Diversity in majority language learning (MAledive)

They address all the social settings of language learning (the majority language context, the minority second language setting, the external setting, coexisting second language settings, and the institutional second language setting).

Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Contexts: Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives