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On line radio stream in various sami languages; Introduction to the history and current state of Sami; Kimberli Mäkäräinen "Sámi-related odds and ends," including 5000+ word vocabulary list; Risten Sámi dictionary and terminology database. Giellatekno Morphological and syntactic analysers and lexical resources for several Sami languages
According to the comparative linguist Ante Aikio, the Sami proto-language developed in South Finland or in Karelia around 2000–2500 years ago, spreading then to northern Fennoscandia. [9] The genetic lineage of the Sami is unique, and may reflect an early history of geographic isolation, genetic drift, and genetic bottle-necking.
Sámi people from Karasjok painted by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in 1852.. The origin of the Sámi has been of research interest since at least the early 17th century. Initially, the Sámi were grouped together with ethnic Finns, due to the relative similarity between the Sámi languages and Finnish.
The Sámi language first developed on the southern side of Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga and spread from there. When the speakers of this language extended to the area of modern-day Finland, they encountered groups of peoples who spoke a number of smaller ancient languages (Paleo-Laplandic languages), which later became extinct
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 and English. Search function only works with Finnish input though. Inari Sami language resources ...
Ante Aikio (Northern Sami: Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte; [1] born 1977) is a Finnish linguist of Sámi origin who has been a professor of Sámi languages at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway since 2015. Prior to this he served as a professor of Sámi language at the Giellagas Institute at the University of Oulu in ...
A 2000 survey by the Sami Language Council showed Kautokeino Municipality and Karasjok Municipality as 96% and 94% Sami-speaking respectively; [9] should those percentages still be true as of the 2022 national population survey, this would result in 2,761 and 2,428 speakers respectively, virtually all of which being speakers of Northern Sámi.
Sápmi (and corresponding terms in other Sami languages) refers to both the Sami land and the Sami people. The word "Sámi" is the accusative-genitive form of the noun "Sápmi"—making the name's (Sámi olbmot) meaning "people of Sápmi". The origin of the word is speculated to be related to the Baltic word *žēmē, meaning "land". [8]