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Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore

Index Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore

The Institute for Language and Folklore, (Institutet för språk och folkminnen, but commonly referred to by the acronym SOFI), is a Swedish government agency with the purpose of studying and collecting materials concerning dialects, folklore and onomastics. [1]

10 relations: Acronym, Gothenburg, Government agencies in Sweden, Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå, Lund, Onomastics, Stockholm, Swedish Language Council, Umeå, Uppsala.

Acronym

An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.

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Government agencies in Sweden

The government agencies in Sweden are state-controlled organizations who act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Sweden.

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Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå

DAUM, the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå (Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Umeå), is a Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history.

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Lund

Lund is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden.

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Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Swedish Language Council

The Swedish Language Council (Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language.

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Umeå

Umeå (South Westrobothnian; Uumaja, Ume Sami: Ubmeje, Upmeje, Ubmi) is a city in north east Sweden.

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Uppsala

Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

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Redirects here:

Institute for Language and Folklore (Sweden), Swedish Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Institute_for_Language_and_Folklore

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