Minority language vitality in the focus of international conference on Åland

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Eldia_3On 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.