Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija : the emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century
Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-ta...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-213645 2024-01-28T10:08:07+01:00 Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija : the emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century Haataja, Daniel Niiranen, Leena 2023 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-213645 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0332586523000124 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier UiT The Arctic University of Norway Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 0332-5865, 2023, 46:2, s. 215-251 orcid:0009-0002-6416-9393 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-213645 doi:10.1017/s0332586523000124 ISI:001047881700001 Scopus 2-s2.0-85169039143 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess contact linguistics Early Modern Finnish Kvens Modern Written Finnish multilingualism Old Literary Finnish orthography written language History Historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2023 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1017/s0332586523000124 2024-01-03T23:36:28Z Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual environment. We identify two writing cultures, one associated with Old Literary Finnish and Early Modern Finnish, the other with Modern Written Finnish (MWF). The orthography used by the former is characterized by the use of b, d, g for p, t, k in native Finnish words, which we attribute to influence from Norwegian. By contrast, the orthography of the latter largely resembles the MWF of the time. However, both groups substitute t for d – a phenomenon found in Finland during the same time period – as well as occasionally use Norwegian characters. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Jenny ENVELOPE(-68.417,-68.417,-67.733,-67.733) Norway Nordic Journal of Linguistics 1 37 |
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Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual environment. We identify two writing cultures, one associated with Old Literary Finnish and Early Modern Finnish, the other with Modern Written Finnish (MWF). The orthography used by the former is characterized by the use of b, d, g for p, t, k in native Finnish words, which we attribute to influence from Norwegian. By contrast, the orthography of the latter largely resembles the MWF of the time. However, both groups substitute t for d – a phenomenon found in Finland during the same time period – as well as occasionally use Norwegian characters. |
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Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija : the emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century |
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