all Sámi languages. The area where Northern Sámi is spoken covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The number of Northern Sámi speakers...
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for only Sámi in some regions of the Nordic countries. Speakers of Northern Sámi refer to themselves as Sámit (the Sámis) or Sápmelaš (of Sámi kin), the...
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symbols. Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi people...
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Northern Sámi Braille is the braille alphabet of the Northern Sámi language. It was developed in the 1980s based on the Scandinavian Braille alphabet but...
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Sápmi (redirect from Sámi native region)
20 Sápmi (from Northern Sami: [ˈsapmi]) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia...
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instance, Southern Sámi nomme 'name' : nommesne 'in the name' to Northern Sámi namma : namas, with the consonant gradation mm : m. Southern Sámi has eight cases:...
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inhabited by the Sámi people is known in Northern Sámi as Sápmi, and typically includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia. Previously, the Sámi have probably...
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A Sámi drum is a shamanic ceremonial drum used by the Sámi people of Northern Europe. Sámi ceremonial drums have two main variations, both oval-shaped:...
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Finland — the three countries where Northern Sámi is spoken — used separate orthographies for teaching the Sámi within their borders. This changed in...
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Scandinavia (redirect from Central-northern Europe)
Sconeg. The earliest Sámi joik texts written down refer to the world as Skadesi-suolu in Northern Sámi and Skađsuâl in Skolt Sámi, meaning "Skaði's island"...
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