Sociolinguistic consequences of language contact between multilingual communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo

• Main Author: Norahim, Norazuna
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2nd Westminister Linguistics Conference Language-Contact-Change-Maintenance-and-Loss 2011
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/817/1/Sociolinguistic%2Bconsequences%2Bof%2Blanguage%2Bcontact%2Bbetween%2Bmultilingual%2Bcommunities%2Bin%2BSarawak%252C%2BEast%2BMalaysia%252C%2BBorneo.ppsx; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/817/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

This paper discusses language contact situations in multilingual communities in the south-western part of Sarawak, with examples drawn from two case studies: (i) contact between two major ethnic communities, Iban and Malay, in a “rural” setting, and (ii) language contact situation in an urban settin...