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Arctic Languages: An Awakening
The work is a study of Arctic languages written in an interdisciplinary manner. Following an introduction, it goes on to deal with the concepts of the Arctic and its peoples, describing their ethnonyms and patterns of settlement and socio-economic structuring. General data are given on their history and traditional culture and on the system of Arctic languages. The study depicts the contemporary situation from the viewpoint of written and literary language and the legal status, social functions and uses in education and the mass media of these languages. Their role as a factor of cultural identity of the peoples is emphasized.
458 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1990
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February 21, 2019
Disclaimer: I gave up with this on page 95 because I was tired of having to fact check some disturbingly inaccurate stats. As such, I can only comment on said first 95 pages.
I started reading this in time for UNESCO's 2019 "year of minority languages" drive. All naive enthusiasm I had has been sucked away by this travesty. I'm disappointed that this is still available without some sort of introduction that overtly states that there are some grave factual errors in this. UNESCO really could and should have done better.
I started reading this in time for UNESCO's 2019 "year of minority languages" drive. All naive enthusiasm I had has been sucked away by this travesty. I'm disappointed that this is still available without some sort of introduction that overtly states that there are some grave factual errors in this. UNESCO really could and should have done better.
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