Citation
Ang, Lay Hoon
(2008)
An analysis of the language shift in the mother tongue of the ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
Overseas Chinese History Studies, 2008 (1).
pp. 32-41.
ISSN 1002-5162
Abstract
Based on the statistics and data collected in a field study, this paper provides a report on the variety and amount of the mother tongue acquired by the same Chinese families over three generations, whose origins are of Fujian, Guangdong, Hakka, Chaozhou and Hainan respectively. The finding confirms that the shift in the mother tongue of the Chinese in Malaysia has already taken place, moving away slowly from the dialects of their origins and heading for English and Mandarin.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Modern Language and Communication |
| Keywords: | Malaysia; Languages of Chinese; Dialect groups; Shift in mother tongue |
| Depositing User: | Nabilah Mustapa |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2016 01:34 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2016 01:34 |
| URI: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13012 |
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