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.
Assouline explores the impact of ideology on language contact in the context of a linguistic minority that opposes the
majority language.
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.
In Germany, immigrants immediately and intensively used media in the
majority language, in contrast to the immigrants in Israel.
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.
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).
Spanish is the
majority language, and English is taught as a foreign language.
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.
The findings appear to demonstrate a shift toward the society's
majority language.
Rwanda, unlike most African countries, has always had one
majority language and culture, as Jacqueline Musiitwa explains.
The project will focus on teacher education for the
majority language (e.
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).