Ethnolinguistic Identities and Language Revitalisation in a Small Society: The Case of the Faroe Islands

• Main Author: Pax Leonard, Stephen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå University Library 2011
• Subjects: Faroese; revitalisation; diglossia; oral literature; language planning; linguistic identity; Faroe Islands; Homestead; Journal of Northern Studies; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/jns/article/view/669

This article explores how Faroese managed to be revitalised from a threatened, minority language to become the main language of 45,000 people living on seventeen islands in the North Atlantic. The Faroese language was coupled with a rich oral literature and was spoken in a very narrow and welldefine...