Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume II
- Figures Volume II
- Tables Volume II
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Multilingualism
- Part Two Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification
- Part Three Lingua Francas
- Part Four Language Vitality
- 17 Language Endangerment, Loss, and Reclamation Today
- 18 Contact and Shift: Colonization and Urbanization in the Arctic
- 19 The Indian Diaspora: Language Maintenance and Loss
- 20 Quechua Expansion during the Inca and Colonial Periods
- 21 Indigenous and Immigrant Languages in the US: Language Contact, Change, and Survival
- Part Five Contact and Language Structures
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
18 - Contact and Shift: Colonization and Urbanization in the Arctic
from Part Four - Language Vitality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume II
- Figures Volume II
- Tables Volume II
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Multilingualism
- Part Two Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification
- Part Three Lingua Francas
- Part Four Language Vitality
- 17 Language Endangerment, Loss, and Reclamation Today
- 18 Contact and Shift: Colonization and Urbanization in the Arctic
- 19 The Indian Diaspora: Language Maintenance and Loss
- 20 Quechua Expansion during the Inca and Colonial Periods
- 21 Indigenous and Immigrant Languages in the US: Language Contact, Change, and Survival
- Part Five Contact and Language Structures
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
For speakers of Arctic Indigenous languages, intense language contact has come as a result of colonization, leading to extensive shift and loss across different Arctic communities. Recent years have seen contact and shift intensified by a nexus of interrelated factors, or stressors, with urbanization, climate change, and the ongoing effects of colonization being among the most significant. The case study of the multilingual language ecologies in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia shows how these factors affect language vitality and overall wellbeing. Greenland provides a contrastive example as the local ecologies differ considerably. The net impact of stressors on Arctic Indigenous communities has been language shift, but the communities are currently experiencing widespread interest in and commitment to increasing language vitality and usage, a pan-Arctic movement of revitalization and resilience to build language and cultural sustainability.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language ContactVolume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure, pp. 473 - 501Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022