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dc.contributor.advisorAntonsen, Lene
dc.contributor.advisorBroderstad, Else Grete
dc.contributor.authorMarakat, Lea O. Nilsen
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-09T08:23:30Z
dc.date.available2023-08-09T08:23:30Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-13
dc.description.abstractLanguage is for many a significant part of one’s identity, culture and livelihood. The strict assimilation-policy that the Norwegian state conducted against the Sámi people for over a hundred years led to a severe loss of the Sámi language in many areas. This thesis is about indigenous language revitalization in a Sámi area that suffered a great language loss because of the policy. By analyzing the interviews of eight informants from the Márka Sámi areas, who have successfully managed to go from passive language carriers to active language users, several main findings have been found. One of them being that every informant has had a strong sense of Sámi identity, which led them to form a personal motivation to want to speak Sámi.These motivations drove the informants to make an individual decision to become new speakers of North Sámi. After they had made the decision, they begun the lifelong process of maintaining and developing their language. As a reward for their efforts, the informants have been integrated into the Sámi speaking community, both in the Márka Sámi areas and in “Sápmi” overall. They are able to give their children a linguistic base and become attractive in the Sámi labor market. These findings are discussed in the light of factors that affects language revitalization by Hyltenstam, Stroud and Svonni (1999), and by Jon Todal (2007). Additionally, the concept of new speakers as an analytical tool is discussed in the framing of articles by Walsh and Lane (2014) and O'Rourke, Pujolar and Ramallo (2015). The aim of the thesis is to be a contribution to others who are striving to take back a language once lost.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29792
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDIND-3904
dc.subjectNorth Sámien_US
dc.subjectIndigenous languagesen_US
dc.subjectNew speakersen_US
dc.subjectLanguage revitalizationen_US
dc.subjectSámi dialectsen_US
dc.subjectTransmission of languageen_US
dc.subjectSámi language centersen_US
dc.subjectMárka Sámien_US
dc.titleNorth Sámi language revitalization: Shifting from passive language carrier to active language user. A case study of individuals who have successfully become new speakers of Sámi in the Márka Sámi areasen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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