Raising the Levee Against the Linguistic Tide

• Published in: Anthropologie et Sociétés
• Main Author: Michel Bouchard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Consortium Erudit 2007
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; Bouchard; Komi; Russie; langues minoritaires; sociolinguistique et ethnolinguistique; francophones de l’ouest canadien; Russia; minority languages; sociolinguistics and ethno-linguistics; Francophones of Western Canada; Rusia; lenguas minoritarias; sociolingüística y etnolingüística; francófonos del oeste canadiense; litt; lang; Canada; Komi language
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2007-v31-n1-as1760/015987ar.pdf; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2007-v31-n1-as1760/015987ar.pdf; https://doi.org/10.7202/015987ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2007-v31-n1-as1760/015987ar/; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2097326110; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/015987ar

This article examines the history of a people and a language. First known under as the « Perm », they were renamed « Zyrian » and finally « Komi » in the 20th century. The decline of the Komi language can be correlated to the rise of another people called « Slavs » and then « Rusin » and finally « R...