Speaker statistics in Spain.

Moreno-Fernández, Francisco

Spanish sociolinguistics has many very accurate tools available to describe the situation of its bilingual areas. Some of these tools count the number of speakers of Spanish and of the other co-official languages. Since 1975, the Autonomous Communities' governments have promoted statistical knowledge of the linguistic reality through specific projects and sociolinguistic research. In this article, the most important projects dealing with the socio-linguistic situation of bilingual areas are introduced, along with several proposals to improve this kind of information.

SPAIN; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; SPANISH language; BILINGUALISM; SPANISH autonomous communities; ADMINISTRATIVE & political divisions

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2007, Vol 2007, Issue 184, p139

0165-2516

Academic Journal

10.1515/IJSL.2007.019