Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami
Abstract Aanaar Saami is an indigenous language spoken by an estimated 400 people mainly around Lake Aanaar in Northern Finland. Within the past three decades, the once critically endangered language has acquired dozens of new speakers. This study provides a novel overview of the recent development...
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crspringernat:10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_11 2024-03-10T08:31:46+00:00 Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami Mettovaara, Jukka Ylikoski, Jussi 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_11 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_11 unknown Springer International Publishing https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Arctic Encounters Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North page 323-352 ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496 ISBN 9783031429781 9783031429798 book-chapter 2023 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_11 2024-02-13T20:48:16Z Abstract Aanaar Saami is an indigenous language spoken by an estimated 400 people mainly around Lake Aanaar in Northern Finland. Within the past three decades, the once critically endangered language has acquired dozens of new speakers. This study provides a novel overview of the recent development of Aanaar Saami by combining a structural perspective to language change and an analysis of language ideologies behind probably one of the most successful language revitalisation projects in Europe. As for the ideological themes pertaining to Finnish influence on Aanaar Saami, it is possible to identify four recurring themes in the literature: (1) good vs. poor language, (2) language competence, (3) institutional domain, and (4) tolerance. The revitalisation of Aanaar Saami shows that even large-scale contact-induced changes need not result in a loss of linguistic or cultural identity among minority language speakers. Book Part Arctic Northern Finland saami Springer Nature 323 352 |
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Abstract Aanaar Saami is an indigenous language spoken by an estimated 400 people mainly around Lake Aanaar in Northern Finland. Within the past three decades, the once critically endangered language has acquired dozens of new speakers. This study provides a novel overview of the recent development of Aanaar Saami by combining a structural perspective to language change and an analysis of language ideologies behind probably one of the most successful language revitalisation projects in Europe. As for the ideological themes pertaining to Finnish influence on Aanaar Saami, it is possible to identify four recurring themes in the literature: (1) good vs. poor language, (2) language competence, (3) institutional domain, and (4) tolerance. The revitalisation of Aanaar Saami shows that even large-scale contact-induced changes need not result in a loss of linguistic or cultural identity among minority language speakers. |
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Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami |
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Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami |
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Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami |
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Arctic Encounters Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North page 323-352 ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496 ISBN 9783031429781 9783031429798 |
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