Ann-Marie Ivars is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, who focuses on studies of the Swedish dialects in Finland.

Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland

Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland is a sociolinguistically oriented project, financed by the

Academy of Finland The Academy of Finland ( fi, Suomen Akatemia, sv, Finlands Akademi) is a governmental funding body for scientific research in Finland. It is based in Helsinki. Yearly, the Academy administers over 260 million euros to Finnish research activities. O ...

from 1990 to 1995. The aim of the project has been to "describe the local language of a number of towns with a Swedish-speaking population, and to analyze the forces behind the rise and the preservation of local urban varieties". The main results of the project are a dissertation (unpublished), "" ("Morphological variation in Finland Swedish urban colloquial language") by Marie-Charlotte Gullmets (1994), and a monograph, "" ("Town and rural surroundings") by Ann-Marie Ivars (1996). In 1994–1995 the funding was Mk320,000. The leader of the project was Professor Ann-Marie Ivars.

''Uppslagsverket Finland''

Ivars has also been a member of the editorial board of ''

Uppslagsverket Finland ''Uppslagsverket Finland'' ('Encyclopedia Finland') is a Swedish-language encyclopedia with a focus on Finland and in particular Finland-Swedish subjects. The encyclopedia is published by initiative of an association dedicated to this task, ( ...

'', a Swedish-language encyclopedia covering Finnish, and particularly Finland-Swedish subjects.

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