Language steamrollers?

Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond: UCLA Medical School

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6667, 547-547

Abstract: Abstract Diamond replies — By ‘language steamroller’ is meant the massive replacement of a region's languages by languages from the outside. Some military, technological, political or demographic advantage enables outsiders to impose their language or even to conquer or replace the original inhabitants. Terrell et al. question whether the suggested ‘steamrollers’ could be real, whereas Sterrer discusses their interpretation.

Date: 1998
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