In Between Resignation and Revitalization : Case Studies of Endangered Languages at the Fin de Millénaire.

• Main Author: Hallamaa, Panu
• Other Authors: Helsingin yliopisto, Humanistinen tiedekunta, Nykykielten laitos 2010-2017, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Modern Languages 2010-2017, Helsingfors universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för moderna språk 2010-2017
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Helsingin yliopisto 2020
• Subjects: Endangered languages; language attrition; sociology of language; language immersion programmes; Aleut language; Pacific Yup’ik language; Skolt Sámi language; Inari Sámi language; Veps language; Olonets Karelian language; Central Karelian language; yleinen kielitiede; General Linguistics; Allmän språkvetenskap; Inari; Pacific; Pekka; Sammallahti; aleut; alutiiq; eskimo*; Inari Sámi; karelia*; karelian; Sámi; Skolt Sámi; Unangam-Tunuu; veps language; Alaska; Lapland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/316875

This is a report on linguistic fieldwork I have conducted mainly during 1993–1999 in three settings, in Alaska, Finnish Lapland and the Karelian Republic in Russia. The focus of this study is the sociology of language, and the research question has been: in community x with regard to language y, wha...