Place-name loaning patterns as cultural survival strategies in Sami contexts

• Main Author: Valtonen, T. (Taarna)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå Universitet 2017
• Subjects: Härjedalen; Inari Sami; Sami culture; Sami language; South Sami; ecological linguistics; onomastics; place-names; Inari; culture sami; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201802153435

Abstract This paper discusses the place-name loaning patterns of one South Sami and one Inari Sami community that have plenty of parallel names in their area. The time span studied reaches from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. The loaning and borrowing proces...