Language Planning in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11183189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Birger Winsa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 376-473 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-4632 • E-ISSN: 1747-7557 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01434639908666384 |
| OpenAlex | W1995484345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This monograph presents a detailed study of the language planning situation in Sweden with particular emphasis on minority languages. Swedish language policies towards minorities have been nationalistic, reluctant, and directed towards assimilation. High labour immigration, which began in the late 1950s, effected bilingual education. Sweden has five minority language groups: Sami spoken by 5-10,000 in the northernmost regions, and especially by reindeer herders; Meankieli and Finnish, two Finno-Ugric languages spoken by 40-70,000 Tornedalians in the northernmost county, Norrbotten, and by 200-250,000 Swedish Finns throughout Sweden, but especially in the capital region and major cities; 5-15,000 Roma speaking various Romani varieties and a few thousand Jews with competence in Yiddish. In practice Sami has had minority status since the early 1970s. In the spring of 2000 new minority legislation will come into force acknowledging these five groups as Swedish minorities, and Sweden will ratify two Council of Europe minority conventions. However, these first steps towards a new minority policy lag some 20 years behind general developments in the European Union, and except for the Sami, economic expenditure to support minorities, their languages and cultures is limited
Economic growth · Ethnic group · European union · First language · Immigration · Language planning · Language policy · Language shift · Legislation · Linguistics · Minority language · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social and Educational Sciences
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| Citations per year | 0.37 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |