Wielojęzyczność społeczności dawnych portugalskich kolonii w Afryce

The goal of the article is to present the multilingualism in the countries emerged from former Portuguese colonies in Africa where, alongside the official Portuguese, more or less numerous native African languages are to be found together with various mixed languages. All of the analysed countries a...

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Published inLingVaria Vol. 11; no. 21; pp. 165 - 176
Main Author Hlibowicka-Węglarz, Barbara
Format Journal Article
LanguagePolish
English
German
Published KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o 01.12.2016
Academia Publishers
Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
Subjects
Applied Linguistics
bilingwizm
Comparative Linguistics
język portugalski
języki afrykańskie
języki kreolskie
Language and Literature Studies
multilingwizm
Sociolinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Portuguese
African languages
creole languages
bilingualism
multilingualism
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Summary:The goal of the article is to present the multilingualism in the countries emerged from former Portuguese colonies in Africa where, alongside the official Portuguese, more or less numerous native African languages are to be found together with various mixed languages. All of the analysed countries are bi- or multilingual, in each the status of Portuguese is different, and so are the number and the status of national languages. In some, creole languages have developed while in others such mixed languages do not exist. One might ponder the reasons for this linguistic diversification, and as a result, observe both the differences and the shared characteristics of the analysed countries, and identify the factors that might have created this sharp contrast. It is the goal of the present paper to attempt to answer these questions.
ISSN:1896-2122
2392-1226
DOI:10.12797/LV.11.2016.21.14