Why does the adoption rate of a planned language by a diaspora community correlate poorly with its official 'high' status in the homeland?

💡 Explanation

Diaspora communities might not value the home country's prescribed prestige dialect because their language contact environment changes prestige language associations; therefore, the planned language fails to gain traction rather than being universally adopted due to official status alone.

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