A proposal for determining the developmental levels of a written language

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Issue Date: 
1984
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Sixteenth Annual West African Linguistics Congress, Yaoundé, Cameroon, April 9-14, 1984
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15 pages
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From Introduction: "The purpose of this document is to determine in explicit and quantifiable terms the levels through which a language must pass in order to leave the point where its use in oral form is presupposed as the primary or even exclusive means of communication within a given linguistic community and arrive at the point where its use in written form is also presupposed as a primary tool for communication within the community."
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57898