Finnic data sets in the ELDIAdata databank

The ELDIAdata is a digital databank containing all empirical materi­ als collected during the EU FP­7 research project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All). ELDIA was an international, interdis­ ciplinary project coordinated by the University of Mainz, Germany, and conducted by experts in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, law, social studies, and statistics in 2010–2013. The overarching aim was to contribute to a better understanding of how local, national, and international (vehicular) languages interact in contemporary Europe, and to enhance the reconceptualisation, re­evaluation, and promotion of individual and societal multilingualism. The empirical data were collected in eight countries from speak­ ers of thirteen Finno­Ugric minority languages, ten of which belong to the Finnic group: Meänkieli, Kven, Finnish in Sweden, Estonian in Finland, Estonian in Germany, Karelian in Finland, Karelian in Rus­ sia, Veps, Võro, and Seto. In addition to the primary study popula­ tions, that is, the minority groups whose languages were at stake, a control group representing all other citizens of the countries where the investigated minorities live was surveyed and interviewed, as well. The most concrete goal of ELDIA was to create a European Lan­ guage Vitality Barometer (EuLaViBar). The barometer is a tool for mea­ suring the level of language vitality and it helps identify areas within which the assessed language requires more societal support. At the most general level, it serves as a testable model for assessing not only the vital­ ity but also the social significance of different languages in multilingual