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Publication details [#35749]

Aikio, Marjut. 1991. The Sámi language: Pressure of change and reification. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 12 (1/2) : 93–103.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | education | language shift | language status | native speaker

Language as a subject

Sámi

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses major trends in the linguistic situation of the Finnish Sámi language, and in particular three factors that influence language shift: an assimilationist school system, a lack of functional contexts for native language use, and a general decline in native language status.