Meänkieli

meänkieli meän kieli English Alternative forms en Mean Kieli Etymology en :bor fit:meänkieli<ety:af<meän<ety:inh<fi:meidän<ety:from<me<ety:inh<urj-fin-pro:*mek>>>>>>><kieli<ety:inh<fi:kieli<ety:inh<urj-fin-pro:*keeli>>>>>> 1 From the native en fit - term fit meänkieli, from fit meän kieli our language. Pronunciation en Proper noun A language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people mainly in Northern Sweden. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Swedish. en North Finnish Torne Valley Finnish Tornedalen Tornedalen Finnish Tornedalsfinska see usage notes en The County Board of Education worked out simple textbooks in Meänkieli and started to promote the vernacular in mother tongue instruction (henceforth MTI). Meänkieli was perceived as a bridge between Swedish and St Fi. 242 Language Planning and Policy in Europe Robert B. Kaplan; Richard B. Baldauf 2006 1853598119 en The Tornedalians call their speech meän kieli ("our language"). Meänkieli was banned from schools until 1992 (see Huss 1999, 80ff. for an historical outline). Since then, the Tornedalians' mother tongue has been taught alongside Swedish. The Meänkieli, however, is not often used in writing outside the schools. 1547 Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society Ulrich Ammon Language Arts & Disciplines 2005 3110171481 Usage notes There seems to be no final agreement on what the language should be called in English: in addition to en Meänkieli, the forms en Torne Valley Finnish, en Tornedalen Finnish, en Tornedalen, en Tornedalsfinska, and en North Finnish are encountered. The ISO 639-3 standard uses Tornedalen Finnish and Finnish, Tornedalen. The speakers of Meänkieli themselves would not want to accept anything with Finnish or -finska in it, because they consider their language distinct from Finnish, even if the languages are largely mutually intelligible. North Finnish is misleading, because it is also used to refer to all northern variants of Finnish as a group. Tornedalen is not ideal either because it is the Swedish name for the en Torne river valley, and geographical names are not normally used directly as names of languages in English. Translations Finnic language spoken in northern Sweden Arabic: ar Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 托爾訥河谷芬蘭語 Tuō'ěrnè Hégǔ Fēnlányǔ Czech: cs tornedalská finština f, cs meänkieli n Estonian: et Finnish: fi meänkieli, fi meän kieli, fi tornionlaaksonsuomi French: fr finnois tornédalien m, fr meänkieli m German: de Meänkieli n, de Tornedalfinnisch n Icelandic: is tornedalsfinnska f, is meänkieli n Italian: it meänkieli m Japanese: ja メアンキエリ meankieri Korean: ko 메앤키엘리 Livvi: olo Meänkieli: fit meänkieli Norwegian: no tornedalsfinsk m, no meänkieli m Polish: pl język meänkieli m Russian: ru ме́янкиели n Sami: Northern Sami: se meängiella Southern Sami: sma Swedish: sv tornedalsfinska c, sv meänkieli c Ukrainian: uk мя́нкіелі n Võro: vro See also fit Further reading fit Anagrams en aeeiiklmn animelike Mainelike en Languages