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Norfolk Island, South Pacific: An Empirical Ecolinguistic Case Study

J Nash

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Abstract

The linguistic ecology of Norfolk Island provides an illustrative case study of the interaction between ecological and linguistic principles. Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, is located in the South Pacific. The language of Norfolk Island, Norf'k, is spoken by around four hundred people who are descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-97
JournalAUMLA
Volume2011
Issue number116
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
  • Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

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