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Sámi languages ( / ˈsɑːmi / SAH-mee ), [4] in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwestern Russia ). There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages.
Sweden and some parts of Norway; recognized as a minority language in several municipalities of Finland. Historically verified distribution of the Sami languages: 1. Southern Sami, 2. Ume Sami, 3. Pite Sami, 4. Lule Sami, 5. Northern Sami, 6. Skolt Sami, 7. Inari Sami, 8.
- Approximately 20,000–30,000
- Sápmi (Lapland)
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The Sámi ( / ˈsɑːmi / SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi -speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. The region of Sápmi was formerly known as Lapland, and the Sámi have historically ...
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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Say it in Saami Yle's colloquial Northern Sami-Inari Sami-Skolt Sami-English phrasebook online; Brief history of Inari Sami; Salminen, Tapani. UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages. 1993. Kimberli Mäkäräinen A minute vocabulary (Inari Sami-English) (233 words) Names of birds found in Sápmi in a number of languages, including Skolt Sami ...
- 400 (2018 census)
- Finland
Sámedikki giellastivra - Sami language department of the Norwegian Sami parliament (in Norwegian and Northern Sami) Finland - Sámi Language Act Diarsipkan 2004-10-26 di Wayback Machine. Sami Language Resources All about Sami Languages with glossaries, scholarly articles, resources; Álgu database, an etymological database of the Sami ...
Mar 26, 2010 · The Saami languages are Fenno-Ugrian languages spoken from central Sweden and Mid-Southern Norway to the tip of the Kola Peninsula in Russia by 25,000-35,000 speakers. The number of ethnic Saami is probably nearly 100,000. There are no deep linguistic boundaries within the language area between neighbouring dialects, but ten Saami languages can be distinguished, six of which have written ...
