Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth
Today many young members of the Sindhi community are migrating from villages to cities in Pakistan, where the national language, Urdu and the co-official language, English, dominates. This study investigates the daily language patterns of transplanted Sindhi speakers and the impact of such patterns...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2023-12-01
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| description | Today many young members of the Sindhi community are migrating from villages to cities in Pakistan, where the national language, Urdu and the co-official language, English, dominates. This study investigates the daily language patterns of transplanted Sindhi speakers and the impact of such patterns on their mother tongue. Furthermore, as these speakers frequently switch from one language to another due to exposure to multilingualism in urban settings, this study determines the dominant language being used by young Sindhis in their mixed discourse, compared to the discourse of older Sindhis. Reasons for adopting other languages in academic institutions and home-settings were also investigated. A qualitative case study was conducted to obtain detailed responses about the linguistic choices of twenty young Sindhi speakers. Two Sindhi families were also observed to study the language choices across generations in home-settings, and semi-structured interviews were conducted to determine reasons for the mixed languages which emerged. The data were analysed using frequency analysis for linguistic choices and thematic analysis of the daily life discourse. Results show that the young Sindhis in the city of Karachi are using dominant languages Urdu and English in their daily life and have higher proficiency in Urdu and English as compared to their mother tongue Sindhi. Moreover, there are several social, economic, and cultural reasons for switching from one language to another among the younger Sindhi generation, in contrast to the older Sindhi generation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c546855ddea4219a09a81e6a9b09e862024-01-09T08:45:19ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian Journal of Linguistics2687-00882686-80242023-12-0127486588510.22363/2687-0088-3425820876Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youthMuhammad Hassan Abbasi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-0963Maya Khemlani David1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5569-3591Ameer Ali2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9438-4903Dawood University of Engineering and Technology KarachiAsia Europe Institute, University of MalayaCollege Education Department, Government of SindhToday many young members of the Sindhi community are migrating from villages to cities in Pakistan, where the national language, Urdu and the co-official language, English, dominates. This study investigates the daily language patterns of transplanted Sindhi speakers and the impact of such patterns on their mother tongue. Furthermore, as these speakers frequently switch from one language to another due to exposure to multilingualism in urban settings, this study determines the dominant language being used by young Sindhis in their mixed discourse, compared to the discourse of older Sindhis. Reasons for adopting other languages in academic institutions and home-settings were also investigated. A qualitative case study was conducted to obtain detailed responses about the linguistic choices of twenty young Sindhi speakers. Two Sindhi families were also observed to study the language choices across generations in home-settings, and semi-structured interviews were conducted to determine reasons for the mixed languages which emerged. The data were analysed using frequency analysis for linguistic choices and thematic analysis of the daily life discourse. Results show that the young Sindhis in the city of Karachi are using dominant languages Urdu and English in their daily life and have higher proficiency in Urdu and English as compared to their mother tongue Sindhi. Moreover, there are several social, economic, and cultural reasons for switching from one language to another among the younger Sindhi generation, in contrast to the older Sindhi generation.https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/37234/22906language shiftinternal diasporalanguage patternstranslanguagingsindhi |
| spellingShingle | Muhammad Hassan Abbasi Maya Khemlani David Ameer Ali Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth Russian Journal of Linguistics language shift internal diaspora language patterns translanguaging sindhi |
| title | Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth |
| title_full | Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth |
| title_fullStr | Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth |
| title_short | Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth |
| title_sort | internal migration and changes in language repertoire among sindhi youth |
| topic | language shift internal diaspora language patterns translanguaging sindhi |
| url | https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/37234/22906 |
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