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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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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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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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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are also offered in different Sámi language centres throughout the south Sámi area. Southern Sámi is one of the six Sámi languages that has an official...
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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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traditional Sámi music songs (e.g. Kvad and Leudd songs) and joiks are important musical expressions of the Sámi people and Sámi languages. The Sámi also use...
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