The Irish Language in the United States
Subtitle: A Historical, Sociolinguistic, and Applied Linguistic Survey
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: November 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780897893312
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Celtic Languages; Language; Study and teaching; Miscellaneous; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; History; Irish language; Social aspects; United States
First sentence: "It has been said that the abandonment by the Irish people of their own language in the 19th century was an event unparalleled in recent European history" (Ó Tuama 1972, p. 100).