Sustaining linguistic continuity in the Beringia:Examining Language Shift and Comparing Ideas of Sustainability in Two Arctic Communities

• Published in: Anthropologica
• Main Author: Schwalbe, Daria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfHumanities; Faculty of Humanities; Inuit; Yupik; language use; language variation and change; Linguistic anthropology; linguistic practices; sustainability; Arctic region; Language ideologies; Alaska; Chukotka; Beringstrædet; Indigenous Communities; indigenous knowledge; indigenous peoples; Arctic; Chaplino; Lawrence Island; inuit; Inuit–Yupik; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/sustaining-linguistic-continuity-in-the-beringia(d970ef97-9948-4af6-a3ca-dda077f36f8a).html; https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.591.T04; https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/08d76988-67c0-4547-95dd-d86f4fabcd12

In order to answer the critical question of “how (and whether) communities can sustain continued use of their languages in the future,” this article addresses the subject of linguistic “sustainability” by comparing linguistic situations in two geographically and politically divided Yupik communities...