Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia?

Type Journal Article - International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Title Language maintenance or language shift among the Punjabi Sikh community in Malaysia?
Author(s)
Volume 165
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2003
URL https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maya_David/publication/249930380_Language_maintenance_or_langua​ge_shift_among_the_Punjabi_Sikh_community_in_Malaysia/links/553a10b70cf2239f4e7dc484.pdf
Abstract
This study of the Punjabi Sikh community in Petaling Jaya, using a 85-item
questionnaire directed at 312 respondents, attempts to determine language
choice and the dominant language of the community in the home and
religious domains and with different interlocutors. The findings show that the
community is shifting to English and/or using a mixed code that consists
of three languages.

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