Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (Swedish)In: Nordisk tidskrift för socioonomastik / Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics, ISSN 2004 - 0881, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 47-80Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper presents a quantitative study of the registration of diacritics in Hungarian, Spanish, Vietnamese and Turkish family names in the official Swedish population records. Out of the examined diacritics, vowels with accents and the Turkish letter <ç> are registered in up to 21 % of the cases, whereas the Turkish letter <ü> is registered in over 90 % of the occurrences. The author discusses possible explanations for this pattern. Parts of a bigger interview study is also presented, where informants share their views of diacritics in the Swedish population records.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: , 2024
Keywords
onomastics, personal names, family names, diacritics, foreign letters, immigrant names, official records
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Name Care and Name Planning; Personal Names; Namnvård
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sprakochfolkminnen:diva-2786 (URN)10.59589/noso.42024.15961 (DOI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0130:1
2024-10-162024-10-162024-10-17Bibliographically approved