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The Introduction starts out with the fact that even though the British Empire had a great interest in colonizing the South American continent, the impact of Britain and its language has been minimal there until today. The Introduction then describes the types of British settlers that have colonized the continent. Most of them belonged to one of three different groups, i.e., soldiers, professional staff, and members of small enclave communities that pursued specific purposes such as business or utopian ideals. The New Australian group of settlers belonged to the last group, as its goal was to establish an independent communist society in a remote location for which Paraguay, a Spanish colony in the center of the continent, was chosen. The remainder of the Introduction outlines the content of the book.
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This is the original wording. Unless otherwise indicated, all the remaining examples were translated from Spanish.
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“Supercentral” languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, German, Spanish, or Swahili, are relevant in certain regions, and “central” languages are well-established national languages of limited reach, such as Dutch or Finnish. The “peripheral” languages, finally, many of which lack a written form, constitute 98% of the world’s languages (de Swaan 2001: 4–6).
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Perez, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Language Competition and Shift in New Australia, Paraguay. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24989-2_1
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