Kola Sami language revitalisation - opportunities and challenges.

• Main Author: Scheller, Elisabeth
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Sami language: 031; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Samisk språk: 031; Lovozero; Kildin; sami; samisk
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/5669

Today, all four Kola Sami languages are seriously endangered by a language shift from Sami to Russian. However, a language revitalisation process has started. Particularly the Kildin Sami language community in Lovozero seems to have the necessary political, financial and practical conditions for bei...