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The future of Saami - Minority language survival in circumpolar Scandinavia / Mikael Svonni.
Title: | The future of Saami - Minority language survival in circumpolar Scandinavia / Mikael Svonni. |
Author(s): | Svonni, Mikael. |
Date: | 1996. |
Publisher: | Umeå, Sweden: CERUM |
In: | Northern people, southern states : maintaining ethnicities in the circumpolar world. (1996.), |
Abstract: | Article gives history of Saami language use and education in it. Statistics are unavailable except from small studies, as not even number of Saami is known, still less numbers of speakers and their competence. Much depends on use in families, but schools and media are raising use of language compared with 30 years ago. North Saami is used in all three countries and is in much healthiest state of 9 "dialects" and 6 orthographies. |
Notes: | In: Northern people, southern states : maintaining ethnicities in the circumpolar world / Robert P. Wheelersburg, ed. |
Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Saami. 809.455 -- Saami language. S -- Literature and Language. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*56) -- Finland. (*57) -- Sweden. (*58) -- Norway. |
SPRI record no.: | 138429 |
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