Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia

<p>This book examines the language policies in the constitutions legal statutes and regulations of Sweden Denmark Norway Iceland the Faroe Islands and Greenland. In these countries and territories modern descendants of Old Norse (North Germanic) are spoken today: Swedish Danish Norwegian Icelandic and Faroese. In addition there are regions of Scandinavia where speakers of minority languages were conquered or incorporated with their languages suppressed or neglected as well as recent developments in the status and use of English and immigrant populations who do not speak a Scandinavian language as their native language. This book adopts a comparative approach to trace the development of language policies and rights in Scandinavia and it will be of interest to students as well as scholars of European and Scandinavian studies applied linguistics sociolinguistics education political science and law.</p>