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Title:		A Sociolinguistic Assessment of the Roshani Speech Variety in Afghanistan
Bibliographic Citation:		Beck, Simone; 2013-12; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4573.
Creator:		Beck, Simone
Date (W3CDTF):		2013-12
Description:		This paper presents the results of a sociolinguistic assessment conducted in September 2007 in the Roshan area in Afghanistan, where the vernacular Roshani is spoken (ISO: sgh, for Shughni). The goal of the assessment was to determine whether the Roshani people will benefit from a language development project, opening the possibility for literature development and primary school education in the vernacular. The objectives were to assess whether the national language Dari (ISO: prs, for Persian) or the closely related speech variety Shughni would be adequate to be used in literature and primary school education. This was achieved by administering sociolinguistic questionnaires and village elder questionnaires, eliciting word lists, testing intelligibility of the Shughni speech variety, and observing and asking about bilingualism with Dari. In this way the domains of language use, attitude towards Roshani, Shughni and Dari, and bilingualism with Dari, and intelligibility of Shughni were determined. This paper aims to show that due to low bilingualism with Dari, Dari literature cannot serve the Roshani speech community adequately. Because of high intelligibility with Shughni and a neutral attitude, it will be recommendable that Shughni reading material will be tested in Roshan as soon as it is ready.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		67
Identifier:		Beck, Simone. 2013. A Sociolinguistic Assessment of the Roshani Speech Variety in Afghanistan. Language Documentation & Conservation. 7: 235-301.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4573
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		Sociolinguistics
		Roshani
		Dari
		Afghanistan
Table Of Contents:		beck.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Beck, Simone. 2013. University of Hawaii Press.
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