Language maintenance (Topical Term)

Work cat.: La pratique du breton de l'ancien regime a nos jours, 1995.

Cambr. encyc. lang., 1987: language maintenance (the continued use of and support for a language in a bilingual or multilingual community; language loyalty: the personal attachment to a lang. that leads to its cont. use in a country where other lang. are more dominant)

Encyc. lang. and ling., 1994 (language maintenance denotes the continuing use of a language in the face of competition from a regionally and socially more powerful or numerically stronger language)

Intl. encyc. of ling. (language loyalty, language maintenance)

MLA thesaurus (maintenance)

Dict. of ling. phon.: p. 194 (The study of lang. change within a sociolinguistic perspective has a wide range of terms; the concern to preserve the use of a lang. or the traditional form of a lang. is referred to as language loyalty or language maintenance)

Hartmann dict. lang.

Here are entered works on the continued use of a language in a multilingual setting, especially when in competition with culturally or numerically more influential languages.