Language is Everywhere
What about us and the things we do?
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We live to survive
This website is part of a dissemination project supported by
the IASH SUSAN MANNING Workshop Fund.
The aim of this project is to create a virtual exhibition on Márkomeannu’s Linguistic Landscape
Words by the boulder
Linguistic Efflorescence at Gállogieddi
About the project:
Tomorrow
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Today
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Forever
At Márkomeannu festival (Gállogieddi, Stuornjárga, Norwegian side of Sápmi), written Márku-Sámi language is omnipresent. Márku-Sámi is used and displayed in all possible contexts. This effort in displaying and encouraging people to use the language are acts of linguistic activism.
The use of the local Sámi language in the festival’s linguistic landscape can be considered a decolonial strategy. People are encouraged to use the Márku-Sámi words in the festival context, even if they do not master the language.
These words are literally inscribed in the landscape into which they are usually used: the food list in the festival kitchen, the word for water close to the fountains, the term for toilet nearby the portable toilet.
The visibility and site specificity of displayed words help people memorize them, fostering language knowledge among festival-goers.
The aim of the festival organizers has been to endow the local Márku-Sámi language with social prestige and hence, foster pride in its speakers.
Language prestige is especially important in a multilingual and multicultural community such as that of Stuornjárga.
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