Language Policy Experiments: Creation of a Kola Saami Writing System in the 1930s; pp. 289-303

2016/11/22 by Olga Nikolaevna Ivanishcheva · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #African history and culture analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.3176/lu.2016.4.06

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Abstract

The article presents archive materials related to the creation of the first, Latin-script Kola Saami writing system between 1933 and 1935. The article describes how the authorities created both the system and the linguistic situation on the Kola Peninsula at that time. It demonstrates how the introduction of the Latin-script Saami ­alphabet, and the variety of Kola Saami selected as its basis, resulted from language policy. There is also a discussion of the teaching challenges that arise as a result of problems that are both external (lack of teachers) and internal (the varieties of Kola Saami).

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