The present and future status of a minority language: The case of Arabic in the United States

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• This is a revised version of a paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco, 1984. The research reported here draws on data collected by the author and Joshua A. Fishman, whose influence is pervasive throughout this paper. Thanks are due to the respondents to our questionnaire who made this paper possible. I also thank Dan Ehnbom and Virginia Palmer for stylistic suggestions.
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