The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact 2022
DOI: 10.1017/9781009105965.009
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Multilingualism and Super-Diversity: Some Historical and Contrastive Perspectives

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“…The European languages that a minority of African speakers have added to their respective repertoires have not displaced the traditional egalitarian multilingualism practiced in most societies of the continent (Vigouroux & Mufwene, 2008). It is worth reminding the reader that the colonial languages are spoken by roughly 20%−30% of sub-Saharan African speaking subjects (with variations across countries and a couple of exceptions, Mufwene, 2022) and therefore fulfil well-circumscribed daily communicative functions on the continent. The sub-Saharan ecologies, with all their sociocultural variations that any analyst should bear in mind, underscore the fact that language-based distinctions and societal hierarchies are polity-specific, differing according to varying colonial histories.…”
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“…The European languages that a minority of African speakers have added to their respective repertoires have not displaced the traditional egalitarian multilingualism practiced in most societies of the continent (Vigouroux & Mufwene, 2008). It is worth reminding the reader that the colonial languages are spoken by roughly 20%−30% of sub-Saharan African speaking subjects (with variations across countries and a couple of exceptions, Mufwene, 2022) and therefore fulfil well-circumscribed daily communicative functions on the continent. The sub-Saharan ecologies, with all their sociocultural variations that any analyst should bear in mind, underscore the fact that language-based distinctions and societal hierarchies are polity-specific, differing according to varying colonial histories.…”
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