Codificarea și normarea limbilor română și finlandeză: The Codification and Standardisation of Romanian and Finnish

Abstract

This article presents a comparative and contrastive analysis of the linguistic codification processes in Romania and Finland. These countries belong to quite different cultural spheres, without any direct cultural or political connection between them, but in them the history of language standardization and modernization reflects certain underlying cultural, religious, intellectual and social currents in European thought. Linguistic codification and standardization processes took place in several countries and regions in Europe (Albania, Slovenia, Norway, Catalonia, etc.), especially in the 19th century. All these developments share similar phenomena, which highlights the fundamental unity of culture and the evolution of ideas in Europe.