Revitalizing a community language: Livonian and other community languages

The present paper compares efforts to revive the spoken use of two European languages which have fallen into disuse: Cornish, spoken in the southwest of England, and Livonian in Latvia. Different approaches have been taken in encouraging heritage learners to use the languages again, but there are p...

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Main Author: Christopher Moseley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2016-09-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15150