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Bilingualism in South Asia (India): National/Regional Profiles And Verbal Repertoires

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Kamal K. Sridhar
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Anyone who undertakes to do an overview of so large an area as studies on “the South Asian bilingual's verbal repertoire and the functional allocation of languages” within so small a space as permitted by this review deserves her predicament. The problem lies in the complexity and diversity of the situation, and the danger of inanity resulting from oversimplification. However, since the alternative is to wait for book-length treatments which have yet to be written, and in the meanwhile, suffer the omission of a prime example of a multilingual region from a volume devoted to multilingualism, I shall compromise by treating only the broadly representative situations and trends and ignoring the (sometimes more interesting) particularities of a given language or an individual contact situation.

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Bilingual Communities: Linguistic Minorities and Their Verbal Repertoires
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 6 , March 1985 , pp. 169 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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