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200 10$aKorle meets the sea $ea sociolinguistic history of Accra /$fM.E. Kropp Dakubu
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1997
215   $a1 online resource (235 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aBibliography: p183-197. _ Includes index.
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 1997.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-197) and index.
327   $aContents; 1. A Dispute, a Saying, and Some Theory; 2. Multilingualism and the West African City; 3. Modern Multilingual Accra I; 4. Modern Multilingual Accra II; 5. To the Sea: The Formation of the Ga Language Community; 6. Upstream, Inland: Other People's Languages; 7. Beyond the Sea: Exotic Languages; 8. Flood Control: The Dynamics of Multilingualism; Notes; References; Index
330 8 $aFor centuries, Accra, the capital of Ghana, has been a linguistic anomaly that contains 44 indigenous languages, of which most members of its population speak at least two, Using linguistic, historical, and ethnographic techniques, Dakubu explores the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has affected Ghanaian society.
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