The Multilingual Apple
Subtitle: Languages in New York City (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Contributors: Ofelia Garcia (Editor); Joshua A. Fishman (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9783110150896
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Sociolinguistics; New York; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; USA; New York (N.Y.); Linguistics; Languages; Linguistic minorities; New York (State)
First sentence: "On the island of Manhate, and in its environs, there may well be four or five hundred men of different sects and nations: The Director General told me that there were men of eighteen different languages."