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Title: | Language maintenance and language shift of the Maltese migrants in Canada |
Authors: | Sciriha, Lydia |
Keywords: | Malta -- Emigration and immigration -- History Language maintenance -- Malta Language maintenance -- Canada Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History |
Issue Date: | 1990 |
Publisher: | University of Malta |
Citation: | Sciriha, L. (1990). language maintenance and language shift of the Maltese migrants in Canada. Journal of Maltese Studies, 19-20, 34-41. |
Abstract: | It is a widely accepted fact that mother tongue maintenance in immigrant families is not easy when the host country's official language is different from the immigrants' first language. There are a number of studies which have documented language maintenance and/or language loss of different ethnic communities such as the Norwegian-Americans, the French Canadians, the German-Hungarians, the Pennsylvanian-Germans, the Chinese-Canadians, the Albanians living in Greece, the Indian community of Taos in New Mexico, the Lebanese immigrants in Australia and the Maltese-Australians. Similarly, this short study discusses the language use of three generations of the same family of Maltese-Canadians living in Toronto, Canada. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/28726 |
Appears in Collections: | JMS, Volume 19-20 JMS, Volume 19-20 Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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