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--- languages:elfdalian_in_sweden [2020/09/08 10:20] – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
+++ languages:elfdalian_in_sweden [2025/06/18 09:43] (current) – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
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 ==== Language vitality according to: ====
-^ [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ovd|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10425|Endangered Languages]] ^  [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/elfd1234|Glottolog]]  ^
+^ [[https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/elfdalian-ovdalian|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ovd|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10425|Endangered Languages]] ^  [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/elfd1234|Glottolog]]  ^
-| {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |definitely endangered}}|{{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink | shifting}}|{{ :endangerment:red.png?nolink | Endangered}} |  {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink|shifting}}  |
+|  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|severely endangered}}  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|Endangered}}  |  n/a  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|shifting}}  |
+<sup> Click [[manual:colour_codes|here]] for a full overview of the language vitality colour codes. </sup>
 ==== Linguistic aspects: =====
   * Classification: //Indo-European// → //Germanic//. For more information, see [[http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/elfd1234]]
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 Elfdalian is spoken mostly in the Älvdalen municipality in a western region of Sweden called Dalarna. Elfdalian is not an official minority language in Sweden but rather a dialect. It belongs to the "dalmål" (Dalecarlian) which in their turn belong to the "sveamål" which is one of the six big dialect groups in Sweden ((Piotr Garbacz. //Älvdalska – ett mindre känt nordiskt språk// <[[https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om/organisasjon/tekstlab/aktuelt/arrangementer/arkiv/alvdalska.pdf]]> [accessed 08 December 2017])).
-{{:languages:master_m_2017:33380alvdalsk3-500x511.jpg?400|}}
+{{:languages:elfdalian_map.png?nolink&400|Map showing the language area of Elfdalian}}
-Source((National Vanguard. //Isolated People in Sweden Used Runes Up Until 1900, Still Speak Old Norse.// (2016). <[[https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/09/isolated-people-in-sweden-used-runes-up-until-1900-still-speak-old-norse/]]>))
+<sup> Map 1. Map showing the language area of Elfdalian (marked with the red circle), in the municipality of Älvdalen((n.k. (n.d.). //Älvdalen Municipality in Dalarna County// [image, adapted]. Wikimedia Commons. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%84lvdalen_Municipality_in_Dalarna_County.png]].))</sup>
+{{:languages:512px-karta_oever_andel_talare_av_aelvdalska_i_aelvdalens_socken.svg.png?nolink&400 |Map showing the language settlments of Elfdalian}}
+<sup> Map 2. Map showing an overview of settlements withing that circle ((Lundgren8. (2016). //Karta över andel talare av älvdalska i Älvdalens socken// [image]. Wikimedia Commons. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karta_%C3%B6ver_andel_talare_av_%C3%A4lvdalska_i_%C3%84lvdalens_socken.svg]].))</sup>
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 ===== Legislation of language education =====
-==== International law ====
+==== Legislation on European level ====
-Since Elfdalian is not an official minority language in Sweden it is also not protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
+Elfdalian is not recognised by Sweden as a regional or minority language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages((Council of Europe. (2022, August 1). //States Parties to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
+and their regional or minority languages (listed by language on p.6).// Retrieved from [[https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-charter-regional-or-minority-languages/languages-covered]].)).
 ==== National/regional law ====