Issues on majority and minority communities : An ecological perspective

• Main Author: Norahim, Norazuna
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2013
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/342/1/Issues_on_majority_and_minority_abstract.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/342/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Language ecology is dynamic and changing. Contact between languages within a community may cause conflict; that is minor and major groups competing for the survival of their languages. Nonetheless, smaller ethnolinguistic groups are shown to have survived in a less hostile environment consisting o...