Revitalising Indigenous Languages

Aanaar Saami is a language spoken only in Finland by some 350 indigenous speakers today. In a volume beginning with a translated poem on language and ethnic identity, Annaar Saami scholar Olthuis (U. of Oulu, Finland, Kivela (Saami Archives, Finland), and Sktutnabb-Kangas (emeritus, Abo Akademi U., Finland) present a total immersion training program being used to revitalize one of the world's many endangered languages. They discuss challenges facing such efforts, and the concept of "language nests." Includes boxed information on aspects of language status, rights, and education. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Marja-Liisa Olthuis is University Lecturer at University of Oulu, Finland. Her major interests are the Saami languages, Finnish, language revitalisation, lexicology, second/foreign language teaching and translating.
Suvi Kivela is a researcher at the Saami Archives in Finland. She has worked as a news broadcaster at YLE, Finland's national public service broadcasting company. She is one of the Complementary Aanaar Saami Language Education graduates.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (emerita) has been actively involved with struggles for language rights for five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity.