The Effects of the Beginning of University Studies on the Language Revitalisation of Skolt Saami as Seen from the Perspective of Students and the Language Community
Abstract This study examines how the beginning of Skolt Saami studies at a university has affected the revitalisation of the language, as seen from the perspective of both students and the Skolt Saami language community. Skolt Saami is one of the three Saami languages spoken in Finland, along with A...
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crspringernat:10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_4 2024-03-10T08:31:46+00:00 The Effects of the Beginning of University Studies on the Language Revitalisation of Skolt Saami as Seen from the Perspective of Students and the Language Community Jomppanen, Marjatta 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_4 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_4 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 87-123 ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496 ISBN 9783031429781 9783031429798 book-chapter 2023 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_4 2024-02-13T16:13:13Z Abstract This study examines how the beginning of Skolt Saami studies at a university has affected the revitalisation of the language, as seen from the perspective of both students and the Skolt Saami language community. Skolt Saami is one of the three Saami languages spoken in Finland, along with Aanaar (Inari) Saami and North Saami. All Saami languages are endangered languages. Today, the majority of native speakers (ca. 300) live in Finland. I approach the research topic from the perspective of reversing language shift, which refers to a situation in which, due to various active measures, a language shift from a minority language to a majority language is successfully halted or decelerated. My focus is on a situation in which a minority language acquires the status of a university major. The data consists of interviews with Skolt Saami students at the University of Oulu. Book Part Arctic Inari saami Springer Nature Inari ENVELOPE(27.029,27.029,68.906,68.906) 87 123 |
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Abstract This study examines how the beginning of Skolt Saami studies at a university has affected the revitalisation of the language, as seen from the perspective of both students and the Skolt Saami language community. Skolt Saami is one of the three Saami languages spoken in Finland, along with Aanaar (Inari) Saami and North Saami. All Saami languages are endangered languages. Today, the majority of native speakers (ca. 300) live in Finland. I approach the research topic from the perspective of reversing language shift, which refers to a situation in which, due to various active measures, a language shift from a minority language to a majority language is successfully halted or decelerated. My focus is on a situation in which a minority language acquires the status of a university major. The data consists of interviews with Skolt Saami students at the University of Oulu. |
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The Effects of the Beginning of University Studies on the Language Revitalisation of Skolt Saami as Seen from the Perspective of Students and the Language Community |
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