90 years of the Mother Tongue Society; pp. 144-153
Journal: Linguistica Uralica
Year: 2010

The Mother Tongue Society (Emakeele Selts) was founded at the University of Tartu in 1920 and joined the Academy of Sciences in 1946. The main activities of the society have been scholarly communication, publication of research and language materials, dialect gathering, language management, and popularization of linguistic knowledge. Scholarly communication has been carried out in the format of meetings with presentations and conferences. Since 1968 an annual linguistic conference in honour of J