Publications

Publication details [#41405]

Winsa, Birger. 2000. Defining an Ecological Niche: The Use of 'Dialect' or 'Language'. Current Issues in Language Planning 1 (3) : 431–434.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language | language ecology | language planning | law

Language as a subject

Meänkieli

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses the recognition of Meänkieli as a language rather than a dialect in the Swedish minority languages legislation as an important language-planning decision.