Perceptions of Siraiki Ethnolinguistic Community regarding Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Siraiki Language in Comparison with Dominant Languages in Pakistan
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Ethnolinguistic vatality, Status, Support, Dominant languageAbstract
The current study aims at investigating the perceptions of Siraiki ethnolinguistic community regarding the ethnolinguistic vitality of Siraiki language in comparison with dominant languages like Urdu and Punjabi in Pakistan. Ethnolinguistic vitality has emerged as a prominent area of research in sociolinguistics and scholars cite the effect of globalization and trending mobilities as major reasons for its popularity. The model of ethnolinguistic vitality was presented by Bourhis, Giles and Taylor (1981) to study the ethnolinguistic vitality of ethnic minority languages. The current research is quantitative in nature in which questionnaire adapted from Bourhis, Giles and Taylor (1981) has been used as a research instrument to collect data. The data has been collected from a sample of 392 Siraiki native speakers to explore the ethnolinguistic vitality of Siraiki language. The findings revealed that the ethnolinguistic vitality of Urdu language was higher on the dimension of status, support, general vitality and one aspect of demographic strength, however, on the other aspect of demographic strength, the ethnolinguistic vitality of Punjabi language was found higher. Thus, it could be concluded that the Siraiki ethnolinguistic community perceived that the ethnolinguistic vitality of Siraiki was low and there was need to take radical steps to improve the scenario of Siraiki ethnolinguistic community.
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