Planning a new standard language : Finnic minority languages meet the new millennium / edited by Helena Sulkala & Harri Mantila.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sulkala, Helena.

Mantila, Harri.

Series:

Studia Fennica. Linguistica ; 15.

Studia Fennica. Linguistica, 1235-1938 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic minorities--Finland.

Linguistic minorities.

Sociolinguistics--Finland.

Sociolinguistics.

Finland.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction : revitalisation of the Finnic minority languages / Helena Sulkala

The planning of the new standard languages / Eira Söderholm

The relationship between variation and standardisation in the creation of a new standard language / Harri Mantila

Modernisation and small languages : fatal language, sociological delay? / Anna-Riitta Lindgren

Will language nests change the direction of language shifts? : on the language nests of Inari Saamis and Karelians / Annika Pasanen

Perspectives on the attitudes of minority language speakers in the Swedish Torne Valley and Viena Karelia / Niina Kunnas & Laura Arola

While the wings grow : Finnic minorities writing their existence onto the world map / Anitta Viinikka-Kallinen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publication date from preface.

ISBN:

9789522222275

9522222275

OCLC:

700688904