Current Issues In Language Planning
Polity Editors: Robert B. Kaplan (University of Southern California), Richard B. Baldauf Jr. (University of Queensland) and Nkonko Kamwangamalu (Howard University)Bob and Dick are also editors of the book series Language Policy and Planning
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Volume: 5 Number: 2 Page: 166–175
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From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan
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Roderick Bovingdon
Freelance linguist, Sydney, Australia
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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.
Keywords: Standard Maltese, ethnolect formation, Maltese in Australia, immigrants, attitudes
©2004 R. Bovington
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