Minority language vitality in the focus of international conference on Åland
On 27 September 2012 the Åland Islands Peace Institute, one of eight partner institutions within the project European Language Diversity for All (ELDIA) hosted a conference entitled Changing Linguistic Landscapes – Law, Languages and Multilingualism in Context. Lawyers, socio-linguists and experts from related disciplines discussed, among others, the extent to which legal frameworks for language use and maintenance can affect language vitality.