Dr Riitta Valijarvi and colleagues awarded Swedish Research Council grant

Rogier Blokland (Uppsala University) and Riitta Valijärvi (UCL, Uppsala University) in collaboration with Elina Kangas (The Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore), have been awarded a four-year grant (£500,000) by the Swedish Research Council 2024-2027. The project is called "Meänkieli: Spoken Corpus and Descriptive Grammar" and involves the creation of an annotated corpus with spoken data and a comprehensive descriptive grammar that can be used to revitalise and standardise this endangered and minoritised language. Meänkieli is spoken by 20,000-50,000 people in Northern Sweden. It is closely related to Finnish and Kven.

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