Abstract
The article focuses on two unintended consequences of purism in the Faroe Islands: 1) the purism has caused an increase in the Faroese lexicon, because many neologisms do not manage to replace the import words. The result is a lot of synonyms, one neologism and one import word.
2) the purism is a reason to the big gap between speech and written language in Faroese.
2) the purism is a reason to the big gap between speech and written language in Faroese.
Translated title of the contribution | Purism and subsidiary catch |
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Original language | Faroese |
Pages | 26-32 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Volume | 88. bind |
Specialist publication | Varðin |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- Faroese
- purism