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ا. د. محمد بن عبدالله المعيلي

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عضو هيئة تدريس

اللغات وعلومها
كلية اللغات وعلومها، قسم اللغة الإنجليزية
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Journal Article
2023
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Language Shift or Maintenance? An Intergenerational Study of the Tibetan Community in Saudi Arabia

The present study provides the first-ever report on the language shift from Tibetan to Arabic among descendants of Tibetan families who migrated from the Tibet region to Saudi Arabia around 70 years ago. The aim of this study was to determine whether three age groups had adopted different practices in terms of maintaining Tibetan or shifting to Hijazi Arabic. To this end, 96 male and female members of the Tibetan community responded to a questionnaire in which they were asked about their code choice in different domains (home, neighbourhood, friends and relatives, expressing emotion, and performing religious rituals). The data revealed significant intergenerational differences between members of the community in terms of the extent of the shift to Arabic, with Tibetan rarely used by younger members and older members making only slightly more use of it. The difference between the three age groups was significant, at a p-value of .001.

Publication Work Type
Journal Article
Publisher Name
Tawasul International Centre for Publishing, Research and Dialogue
Publishing City
Rome, Italy
Magazine \ Newspaper
International Journal of Language and Literary Studies
Pages
301-314
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