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The letter Đ in Sámi languages is a capital D with a bar across it (Unicode code point: U+0110), which is also used in Serbo-Croatian, Vietnamese, etc., not the near-identical capital eth (Ð; U+00D0) used in Icelandic, Faroese or Old English. Sámi languages tend to prefer the N-form eng for the uppercase letter.
The first secular book published in a Sámi language was Johan Turi's Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sámi), released in 1910 with text in Northern Sámi and Danish. In 2023 Sámi author Ann-Helén Laestadius wrote Stolen, a novel of the Sámi in Sweden. It was adapted into a Netflix film of the same name in 2024. Music
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Southern or South Sámi ( Southern Sami: åarjelsaemien gïele; Norwegian: sørsamisk; Swedish: sydsamiska) is the southwesternmost of the Sámi languages, and is spoken in Norway and Sweden. It is an endangered language; the strongholds of this language are the municipalities of Snåsa, Røyrvik, Røros ( Trøndelag, Central Norway) and ...
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The Sámi languages are a branch of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people. They are spoken in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. They are related to the Finnish, the Estonian, and the Hungarian language . "The Sámi languages ... are sometimes considered dialects of one language", says Encyclopædia Britannica; those who speak one Sámi ...
- Approximately 20,000–30,000
- Sápmi (Lapland)
Kildin Sámi (also sometimes known as Kola Sámi, Eastern Sámi[citation needed], and Lappish, though all of these are ambiguous) is a Sámi language spoken on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern Russia that today is and historically was inhabited by this group. The Sámi languages closest to Kildin are Ter Sámi and Akkala Sámi, in Soviet ...
Sámi orthography. Categories: Indigenous languages of Europe. Languages of Finland. Languages of Norway. Languages of Russia. Languages of Sweden. Sámi. Uralic languages.
