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Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia

  • David M
  • McLellan J
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2014), 131-147
DOI: 10.1057/9781137455536_7
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Abstract

Malaysia is a multi-ethnic, multilingual country with a total population of 28.55 million (Malaysian Department of Statistics 2011). The country comprises the Malay Peninsula (West Malaysia, ‘Semenanjung’), and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo Island. Table 6.1 shows a basic breakdown of the total population according to ethnicity:

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David, M. K., & McLellan, J. (2014). Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia. In Language, Education and Nation-building (pp. 131–147). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455536_7

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