%0 Journal Article
%T Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)
%A Piechnik, Iwona
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2014
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.14.022.2729
%N Volume 131, Issue 4
%P 395-419
%K conservatism, purism, change, rate, evolution, Nordic, Germanic, Baltic, Finnic
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/factors-influencing-conservatism-and-purism-in-languages-of-northern-europe-nordic-baltic-finnic
%X 
	This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies in the slower rate of change of these languages.