Runska
Project members
The project brings together academic institutions and local citizens’ organisations from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia, thereby forming a joint effort of linguists, the local community and heritage speakers to document and promote knowledge about this critically endangered variety of Swedish.
Partner organisations and project staff
University of Tartu
Eva Liina Asu-Garcia
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Phonetics, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
Associate Professor of Swedish Language, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Karl Pajusalu
Professor of History and Dialects of Estonian Language, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
Miina Norvik
Associate Professor of Finnic Languages and Language Typology, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
Vootele Valter
Master’s student, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Johannes Sarapuu
Master’s student, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
University of Gothenburg
Henrik Rosenkvist
Professor of Nordic Languages, Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Ida Västerdahl
Doctoral student, Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Ruhnu Cultural Space
Mihkel Urmet
Member of the Board of Ruhnu Cultural Space
Eeva Lauk
University of Latvia Livonian Institute
Valts Ernštreits
Director of the University of Latvia Livonian Institute
Uldis Balodis
Research Fellow, University of Latvia Livonian Institute
Research Fellow in Southern Finnic Languages and Language Typology, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Association of Ruhnu Islanders
Eva Lorentz
Chairman of the Association of Ruhnu Islanders
Anna Greta Ter-Borch
Treasurer of the Cultural Association of Estonian Swedes in Stockholm (SOV)
