Blar i forfatter Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning "Haataja, Daniel"
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Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija: The emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century
Haataja, Daniel; Niiranen, Leena Mirjam (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-08-15)<p>Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. <p>We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual ...