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As the major language in the region is Finnish, Sami speakers are essentially always bilingual with Finnish. Language nest daycares have been set up for teaching the languages to children. In education, Northern Sami, and to a more limited degree, Inari and Skolt Sami, can be studied at primary and secondary levels, both as a mothertongue (for ...
May 9, 2024 · Sámi, an indigenous language group comprising multiple languages, faces digital marginalization due to the limited availability of data and sophisticated language models designed for its linguistic intricacies. This work focuses on increasing technological participation for the Sámi language.
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The agency that Elle exercises by using Sami is beneficial for her own language development, but could also potentially contribute to the language revitalization of Sami and to the linguistic empowerment of other speakers/learners of Sami.
Dec 19, 2008 · The journalist's experience illustrates how the sociolinguistic reality of Sami speakers varies: while the majority of the oldest listeners, born before WWII, have learnt Sami as their first language and Finnish only later at school, most of the journalists – and the majority of middle-aged members of the audience, are bilingual or have ...
- Sari Pietikäinen
- 2008
Apr 20, 2020 · We analyze how the implementation of the Norwegian policy on the Sámi language in school has shaped some Norwegian-speaking Sámi youths’ experiences and challenges of language learning. The research was conducted in Alta, Finnmark county.
- Nina Hermansen, Kjell Olsen
- 2020
Sep 25, 2019 · The Sami speakers are at least bilingual and can also speak the majority language of the country they live in (Norwegian, Swedish or Finnish), while North Sami is used as a lingua franca among the Sami people . The speaker’s country of origin can be fairly easily distinguished based on their speaking manner.
Sápmi – the homeland of the Sámi, the only recognised indigenous people in the EU area – is split into four parts by the borders of the nation-states Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Different Sámi languages are spoken in different areas of Sápmi. Speakers of geographically distant variants cannot always understand each other’s languages.
