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Publication Date: 1984
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What Can We Do When a Language is Dying?
Lindgren, Anna-Riitta
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v5 n3-4 p293-300 Jun 1984
Discusses the assimilation process of the Kven (descendants of Finnish-speaking immigrants from Northern Finland and the Tornio River Valley in Sweden to Northern Norway) and the historical factors and government policies which has lead to their status today as an assimilated group speaking the majority language. (SED)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Groups, Finnish, Language Maintenance, Minority Groups, Norwegian, Public Policy, Sociolinguistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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