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Language shift and the redefinition of social boundaries among the Caribs of BelizeBook 1989 • Wright, Pamela Ann
Garifuna • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central America
This is a detailed study of the language shift process among the Garifuna of Belize. Language shift, according to the author, is the '...intergenerational phenomenon in which children extend the language associated with power in their social context ...