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Ovttastuvvon Máŋggabealatvuoðas: Sweden's Policies on National Minority Languages: Meänkieli and Northern Sámi
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
2026 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
United in Diversity (English)
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores the evolution of the Swedish government’s efforts to revitalize the national minority languages of Meänkieli and Northern Sámi. It does so by processing the four State Reports authored by the Swedish government to the Council of Europe’s Secretary as part of the monitoring of compliance with the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and concludes by discussing the reasons for the different levels of success for Northern Sámi and Meänkieli. The thesis uses Stephen D. Krashen’s theory of Comprehensible Input as an ideal for how a fully revitalized Meänkieli and Northern Sámi would like and appropriates the theory in order to mark an ideal state for Meänkieli and Northern Sámi to compare the Swedish governments efforts to as a way to measure its success. The conclusion is that the empirical material itself seems to argue that Sweden is on the right track to revitalize Meänkieli and Northern Sámi like the research questions asked, but problematizes these findings and wonder if not the control of resources by the Sámi Parliament for their own cultural renaissance is the reason for their much more successful experience in revitalizing their languages.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2026. , p. 44
Keywords [en]
Meänkieli, Northern Sámi, Comprehensible Input, National Minorities, Language Revitalization
Keywords [sv]
meänkieli, nordsamiska, comprehensible input, nationella minoriteter, språkrevitalisering
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Political Science (Excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-87745OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-87745DiVA, id: diva2:2095812
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KS GPS European Studies
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Available from: 2026-08-28 Created: 2026-08-27 Last updated: 2026-08-28Bibliographically approved

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