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Part II - Language in the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

William D. Davies  and
Stanley Dubinsky
William D. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
Stanley Dubinsky
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
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Language Conflict and Language Rights
Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict
 , pp. 67 - 188
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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