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The Sámi languages form a branch of the Uralic language family. According to the traditional view, Sámi is within the Uralic family most closely related to the Finnic languages (Sammallahti 1998). However, this view has recently been doubted by some scholars who argue that the traditional view of a common Finno-Sami protolanguage is not as ...
- Sámi Orthography
Three different orthographical trends can be identified for...
- Inari Sámi language
Inari Sámi ( Inari Sami: anarâškielâ, lit. 'the Inarian...
- Sámi peoples
Sámi in Finland have had access to Sámi language instruction...
- Northern Sámi
Northern Sámi is an agglutinative, highly inflected language...
- Southern Sámi
Southern or South Sámi ( Southern Sami: åarjelsaemien gïele;...
- Sámi Orthography
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)
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Sámi languages, in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in Northern Europe. There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi languages, including Sámi, Sami, Saami, Saame, Sámic, Samic and Saamic, as well as the exonyms Lappish and Lappic. The ...
