Modernization and Language Loss in the Meänkieli Community

• Main Author: Enikő
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies 2020
• Subjects: modernization; assimilation policy; nationalism; social darwinism; discrimination; loss of mother tongue; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Social Sciences; H; Tornio; meänkieli; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/d76ed33392014ce8b101674ec616876e

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...