From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan

• Autores: Roderick Bovingdon
• Localización: Current issues in language planning, ISSN 1466-4208, Vol. 5, Nº. 2, 2004, págs. 166-175
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper outlines the influences that led to new ethnolect formation among an immigrant group, the Maltese, in Australia. Their sociolinguistic background and new linguistic environment brought about a divergence, particularly in terminology, from Standard Maltese, and necessitated the compilation of a glossary of the new ethnolect, Maltraljan. The newly emerged terminology has found acceptance by a government agency as a result of community-led rather than government-planned influence.