Armstrong 1968

Armstrong, Robert G. 1968. "Language policies and language practices in West Africa." In Fishman 1968a. (See Spanish version Arguedas 1966a.) Interest level: specialist.

Equates the multilingual situation in West Africa to that reported by a round-table discussion in Peru about Quechua and Aymara monolingualism in Peruvian education. Discusses developments with respect to a variety of language problems, such as

• standardization of national languages
• developments in literacy
• problems in orthography, and
• the recovery and publication of oral literature.

• Bibliography module: Armstrong 1968
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): A
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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