Open AccessIs Slovenian Istria Still Bilingual?
Author(s) -
Mojca Kompara
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jezikoslovni zapiski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.265
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1581-1255
pISSN - 0354-0448
DOI - 10.3986/jz.v20i2.2264
Subject(s) - neuroscience of multilingualism , ethnically diverse , geography , linguistics , ethnic group , sociology , anthropology , philosophy
This article discusses bilingualism among the Slovenians living in the ethnically mixed territory of Slovenian Istria, where Slovenian and Italian are official languages. Eighty-six Slovenians from this ethnically mixed area were included in the study. The proportion of those declaring themselves bilingual and the results of the survey indicate that the Slovenians in this bilingual region cannot be defined as bilingual because they are not capable of using Italian functionally.