Language Planning and Policy: A Case Study of Dialects in Singapore - a Web Project for EL3267B
Some useful data
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Introduction
Background of Teochew & Hokkien
The Beginning of the End
Macro effects
Micro effects
SMC impacts Teochew & Hokkien!
What type of planning?
Other W-H questions
A possibility for revitalisation?
Some useful data
Some survey results
Conclusion
List of works referenced
Post-script: Phua Chu Kang
A Tribute: My Grandparents
The data illustrated in diagrams 1a, 1b and 2 is derived from the Singapore Statistics website.

http://www.singstat.gov.sg/ssn/feat/2Q2001/pg2-6.pdf

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Diagram 1a

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Diagram 1b

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Diagram 2

The chart below is taken from Mandarin: The Chinese Connection. (Promote Mandarin Council: 2000).

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Diagram 3

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