Maya Ravindranath Abtahian

Biographic Data

ID1537652
NAMEMaya Ravindranath Abtahian
GIVEN NAMESMaya Ravindranath
FAMILY NAMEAbtahian
SIGNATUREABTAHIAN M R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Rochester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The University Next Door

    Open AccessJulianne Kapner, Maya Abtahian et al.ARTICLEJournal of English Linguistics2026

    Recent studies have documented the retreat of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) in the Inland North, as well as the advance of a split between pre-nasal and pre-oral /æ/ (B at/Ban Split) and a merger of /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ ( cot and caught , Low-Back Merger) in dialects throughout North America. The present study investigates the status of these three changes-in-progress for fifteen speakers in an urban neighborhood of Rochester, New York, located in close…

  • Variation and change in progress

    Open AccessFerdinan Okki Kurniawan, Maya Abtahian et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Language Variation2024

    This study reports on variation in final [‐a] ~ [‐e] in Jakarta Indonesian (JI), a new urban variety of Indonesian that emerged from contact between Standard Indonesian (SI) and Betawi, a variety of Malay spoken in the capital of Indonesia. The study incorporates both apparent- and real-time approaches to examining change in this variable, using two large-scale naturalistic speech corpora from three generations of speakers. In the examination of …

  • Urbanization, ethnic diversity, and language shift in Indonesia

    Thomas B Pepinsky, Maya Abtahian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Multilingual and…2024Cited by: 3References: 44

    Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective, focusing our attention on the issue of language use and language shift in Indonesia – a large, ethnica…

  • Garifuna

    Open AccessMaya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2023References: 6

    Garifuna (cab, ISO 639-3) is spoken by the Garifuna people (previously known as Black Caribs and currently also by the plural Garinagu – Cayetano 1993), who reside along the Caribbean coast of Central America in communities in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, as well as in a large immigrant population in the United States. Population estimates in the literature for Garifuna speakers worldwide vary widely, but Aikhenvald (1999: 72) estim…

  • Disruptions due to Covid-19

    Maya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2022

    Around the world, COVID-19 lockdowns have caused abrupt shifts in the amount of time spent at home versus out of the home for work, school, and recreation. As a result, many individuals have experienced a disruption in the frequency and type of their interactions. Given the importance of intergenerational transmission and intergenerational interaction for promoting language maintenance, and the importance of peer-to-peer interaction for promoting…

  • Language labeling and ideology in Indonesia

    Maya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2022References: 33

    As part of a large survey project designed to examine language shift in Indonesia, we examine speakers' categorization and labeling of the language varieties in their repertoire with respect to language ideologies and the language ecology of Indonesia. This paper is both a methodological paper - arguing for the usefulness of surveys in the investigation of language shift scenarios - as well as an initial report of findings from those surveys, foc…

  • Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia

    Open AccessMaya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Language Variation2021

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  • Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns

    Open AccessMaya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLEAsia-Pacific Language Variation2021

    Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia’s capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay, and Standard Indonesian. Like other varieties of Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian is a language with a relatively open system of pronominal reference and multiple forms for self-reference. In this paper we focus on variation in the use of first-person pronouns in Jaka…

  • Language shift, endangerment and prestige

    Maya Ravindranath AbtahianARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2017

    This paper examines a scenario of possible language shift in the multilingual village of Hopkins, where the two most commonly used languages are both ‘minority’ languages: Garifuna, now endangered in many of the communities where it was once spoken, and Belizean Creole (Kriol), an unofficial national lingua franca in Belize. It offers a qualitative examination of beliefs about the three primary languages spoken in the community (Garifuna, Kriol, …

  • Modeling social factors in language shift

    Maya Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2016Cited by: 4References: 15

    This article introduces a quantitative approach to modeling language shift in communities with millions of speakers. Using Indonesia as a case study, and employing a large body of data from the Indonesian population census, we document how factors such as urbanization, ethnicity, economic development, gender, and religion correlate with the shift from local languages (Javanese, Sundanese, etc.) to the national language, Bahasa Indonesia. Our find…