Language attitudes and language shift among ethnic migrants in Khartoum
Mugaddam
Abdel Rahim Hamid
This paper investigates language attitudes among ethnic migrant groups in Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan. A questionnaire was used to collect data on language preference, language parents prefer their children to learn, and reasons for language preference. Results suggest that while positive attitude played a significant role in learning Arabic among some of the groups under investigation, it proved to be of no help in maintaining the groups’ ethnic languages. Arabic was reported as very important for education, religious activities, economic privileges and social interaction. Ethnic languages, on the other hand, were preferred for purely symbolic reasons (symbolizing groups’ ethnic identity).
language-maintenance
language-shift
sociolinguistics
490
periodical
academic journal
Afrikanistik online
2005
2
2005
1860-7462
urn:nbn:de:0009-10-1814
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-10-1814
mugaddam2005