Planning a New Standard Language : Finnic Minority Languages Meet the New Millennium
95: Finnish Literature Society, 2010. Soft Cover. Text in English. 210 pp.
This volume addresses the current situation of twelve Finnic minority languages: Meänkieli, Sweden Finnish, Kven, Viena Karelian, Olonets, Tver Karelian, Karelian Finnish, Vepsian, Votic, Vöro, Seto and Livonian. The articles introduce the legal situation, threat to and revitalization of these languages spoken in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Estonia and Latvia.
What are the problems of creating a new standard language? How does modernization influence small languages? What is the significance of language nests, language attitudes and minority media and literature? Theoretically the book relates to the globally current research that focuses on the linguistic diversity of the world. Fine. Item #6160
ISBN: 9789522222275
Price: $50.00