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DESCRIPTION:"The Shifting Lingustic Landscape in Indonesia: Impact of Indon
 esian on Maintenance of Major Regional Languages"\n\n \n\nAbby Cohn\, Prof
 essor of Linguistics and Director of the Cornell University Southeast Asia
  Program\n\n \n\nThe instatement of Bahasa Indonesia as Indonesia’s nati
 onal language during the Independence movement is widely described as a su
 ccessful example of language planning\, although it has also been implicat
 ed in the ongoing endangerment of local languages. With over 700 local lan
 guages\, Indonesia is one of most linguistically diverse countries in the 
 world.  It is widely acknowledged that “small” languages are at risk o
 f endangerment\, but what is the fate of the “big” languages?  In a mu
 ltifaceted project\, we address this issue investigating language maintena
 nce or shift among the languages of Indonesia with over 1 million speakers
 .\n\n \n\nPrevious work has taken either a “macro” approach\, using a 
 single global measure of vitality for a whole language or a “micro” ap
 proach using in-depth ethnolinguistic interviews. Here we report on two pr
 ojects attempting to find middle ground.  In joint work with Tom Pepinsky\
 , we use 2010 census data\, to assess the likelihood that speakers of the 
 largest languages speak Indonesian at home.  We find that size alone doesn
 ’t account for these results. For instance\, “inner” island speakers
  from Java and Bali are less likely to report speaking Indonesian than “
 outer” island speakers from Sumatra and Sulawesi. We also report on resu
 lts from a questionnaire (Kuesioner Penggunaan Bahasa Sehari-hari\, Cohn e
 t al. 2014)\, developed to collect detailed data from subjects from differ
 ent backgrounds. We provide cross-group comparison of a complex set of var
 iables\, building on Himmelmann’s (2010) observation that language shift
  is rarely the result of just one or two factors but rather the result of 
 a “complex constellation of a variety of such factors.” We focus on di
 fferences between types of communities in Indonesia\, including non-Malayi
 c vs. Malayic language groups\, inner vs. outer islands\, and social and d
 emographic differences. (Work done collaboratively with Dr. Maya Ravindran
 ath Abtahian\, University of Rochester.)
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