Modernization and Language Loss in the Meänkieli Community
The Finns living in the Torne/ Tornio Valley were cut off from the Finns in Finland in 1809, when Sweden lost the territory of Finland in favor of Russia. Since then, the Tornedalian Finns have become the victims of a definite assimilation policy. Today their language, Meänkieli, is a minority langu...
| Published in: | The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.53604/rjbns.v12i2_4 |