Language Shift And Maintenance By The Members Of Urdu Speech Community In Aligarh: A Sociolinguistic Study

Research Article
Mohd.Hilal
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2019.1008.3805
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
1- Language shift 2- Language maintenance 3- Urdu speech community
Abstract: 

The purpose of this study is to find out the different communicative pattern of the members of Urdu speech community in Aligarh. Another purpose of this study is to examine which language is more powerful and dominated language in a multilingual situation among the members of Urdu speech community in Aligarh.