English in contact with Pashto and other Pakistani languages: A review of studies on the language interplay
Keywords:
Language Contact in Pakistan, Language Policy, Official and Regional Languages, Pashto Speaking, Well-educatedAbstract
Languages in contact impact each other in multiple ways. Various studies have been conducted to report how the official and the regional languages in Pakistan affect each other. However, they are too scarce to cover the multitude of the languages and the multiplicity of ways in which they influence each other. In this paper, we present a critical review of the available literature to see what languages and type of contact issues have been studied. This gives an indication of the languages and topics that require further study. However, our explicit goal is to indicate gap in the available literature on how English impacts the use and intergenerational transmission of the regional language Pashto in the family domain in some well-educated and well-off Pashto-speaking families living in the regional center Peshawar where the language is the dominant vernacular.
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