Enduring Languages Project Research Paper

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Inari Sami -- an endangered language Inari Sami is a language spoken by the Inari Sami community in Finland. The language is currently spoken by approximately three hundred individuals and the fact that most of them are old makes it difficult for the language to be preserved. While there are several Sami communities and several Sami languages, Inari is the only one that is spoken only in Finland. The fact that children and young adults express little to no interest in learning the language makes it possible for someone to acknowledge the likeliness that the language is going to disappear in the near future.

One of the main reasons why individuals today are not interested in learning Inari Sami (even if they belong to communities that have traditionally spoken this language) is that they associate very little benefits with learning or speaking it. From...

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Many would be inclined to believe that individuals from the Inari Sami community have translated most information from Inari Sami into Finnish and that the group's language is thus obsolete in the present, taking into account that it appears to have nothing that could assist the contemporary society in experiencing progress.
The present-day world promotes values like globalization and material values, this making…

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Lahteenmaki, Mika, and Vanhala-Aniszewsk, Marjatta, Language Ideologies in Transition: Multilingualism in Russia and Finland, (Peter Lang, 2010)

Proctor, James, "Lapland: The Bradt Travel Guide," (Bradt Travel Guides, 2007)


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