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Societal Bilingualism

Societal bilingualism

30.1 Introduction

‘Societal bilingualism’ is a broad term used to refer to any kind of bilingualism or multilingualism at a level of social organization beyond the individual or nuclear family. By this definition, almost every country and region of the world has some degree of ‘societal bilingualism’. Societal ...

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