Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
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Volume: 21 Number: 1 Page: 58–71
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The Russian Diaspora in Latvia and Estonia: Predicting Language Outcomes
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Artemi Romanov
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The article focuses on the language situation in the Russian diaspora in Latvia and Estonia and analyses factors that are critical in determining language outcomes for a language community within one country
which speaks a majority language of another, a ‘trans-frontier minority’ in Williams’ (1991) terminology. It examines the possibility of three outcomes: language maintenance, bilingualism
and language shift in a short-term and a long-term perspective. Language laws and other language-planning efforts as well as new cultural and socioeconomic realities are interpreted asfactors that may or
may not alter the current status quo in a community with a high resistance to language shift.
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