Why save a minority language? Meänkieli and rationales of language revitalization

This article examines the rationales for language revitalization and their materialization on a local scale. The starting premise is that, due to specific social, cultural, as well as spatial circumstances, there exists a wide variety of rationalizations for why saving endangered languages is import...

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Main Author: Juha Ridanpää
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2018-11-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/74047