Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija: The emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century

• Published in: Nordic Journal of Linguistics
• Main Authors: Haataja, Daniel, Niiranen, Leena Mirjam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2023
• Subjects: Jenny; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32471; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586523000124

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...