Skolt Sámi is spoken by approximately 300 or 400 people. According to Finland's Sámi Language Act (1086/2003), Skolt Sámi is one of the three Sámi languages...
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parts of the Sámi area. Sámi Eastern Sámi Mainland Eastern Sámi Akkala Sámi † Inari Sámi (300 speakers) Kemi Sámi † Kainuu Sámi † Skolt Sámi (320 speakers)...
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The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today...
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The Skolt Sámi or Skolts are a Sami ethnic group. They currently live in and around the villages of Sevettijärvi, Keväjärvi, Nellim in the municipality...
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a distinct identity from other Sámi dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi (some Kemi groups sounded more like...
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Scandinavia (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
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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Sámi. It is the largest of the Eastern Sámi languages by number of speakers. Its future, however, appears to be not as bright as that of Skolt Sámi or...
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homorganic nasal with geminate nasals. The Mainland East Sámi languages, Inari Sámi, Skolt Sámi and Akkala Sámi, share further innovations: Gemination of *s *ś...
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full-length Inari Sámi rap CD in the world on 6 February 2007, the Sámi National Day. Along with Finnish, Skolt Sámi and Northern Sámi, Inari Sámi is one of the...
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Partitive case (section Skolt Sámi)
ma söön kala ära "I will eat (all of) the fish". Of the Sámi languages, Inari and Skolt Sámi still have a partitive, although it is slowly disappearing...
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other Sámi languages, e.g. Northern Sámi, which do not conjugate according to tense. Like Skolt Sámi and unlike other Sámi languages, Southern Sámi has...
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Abessive case (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
Unlike Finnish, the Skolt Sámi abessive has no competing expression for lack of an item. The abessive marker for nouns in Inari Sámi is -táá. The corresponding...
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Pite Sámi, Lule Sámi, Northern Sámi, Inari Sámi, Skolt Sámi, and Kildin Sámi. Three different orthographical trends can be identified for these Sámi languages...
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Õ (section Skolt Sami)
is the 25th letter of the alphabet, pronounced as in Estonian. In the Skolt Sami language, this letter is the 25th letter of the alphabet, pronounced as...
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Kildin Sámi, it has recently[when?] become recognized as an independent Sámi language that is most closely related to its western neighbor Skolt Sámi, and...
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Sápmi (redirect from Sámi native region)
68°N 20°E / 68; 20 Sápmi (from Northern Sami: [ˈsapmi]) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi includes the northern parts...
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Ume Sami: Sámiediggie, Southern Sami: Saemiedigkie, Skolt Sami: Sääʹmteʹǧǧ) is the representative body for people of Sámi heritage in Norway. It acts as...
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Sámi politics refers to politics that concern the Sámi ethnic group in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. In a more narrow sense, it has come to indicate...
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Ter Sámi was the easternmost of the Sámi languages. It was traditionally spoken in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula, but now it is a moribund...
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Neiden, Norway (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
Neiden (also: Njauddâm (Skolt Sami), Njávdán (Northern Sami), Njiävđám (Inari Sami), and Näätämö (Finnish), previously also Näytämö) is a village area...
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articles in Inari Sámi and a few in Skolt Sámi. Before 1979, Norway, Sweden and Finland all had their own orthography for Northern Sámi, but that year saw...
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Inari, Finland (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
official languages: Finnish, Inari Sámi (c. 400 estimated speakers), Skolt Sámi (c. 400 speakers), and Northern Sámi (c. 700 speakers). The estimates of...
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Ume Sámi (Ume Sami: Ubmejesámiengiälla, Norwegian: Umesamisk, Swedish: Umesamiska) is a Sámi language spoken in Sweden and formerly in Norway. It is a...
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Noaidi (redirect from Sámi shaman)
(Northern Sami: noaidi, Lule Sami: noajdde, Pite Sami: nåjjde, Southern Sami: nåejttie, Skolt Sami: nåidd, Kildin Sami: нуэййт / но̄ййт, Ter Sami: ныэййтӭ)...
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Northern Sámi or North Sámi (English: /ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; Northern Sami: davvisámegiella [ˈtavːiːˌsaːmeˌkie̯lːa]; Finnish: pohjoissaame [ˈpohjoi̯ˌsːɑːme];...
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Lapland (Finland) (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
northernmost municipalities of Lapland where the Sámi people are the most numerous form the Sámi homeland. Sámi organisation exists in parallel with the provincial...
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Finnish Sámi shaman Matti Aikio (1872–1929) early Norwegian Sámi writer Pekka Aikio (born 1944), Finnish Sami politician, president of the Sámi Parliament...
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on by the Skolt Sámi Language and Culture Association Saaʹmi Nueʹtt and the Skolt community council. "Vuoden koltta -palkinto" [Skolt of the Year Award]...
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Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, Pamirian languages, and Greenlandic alphabets. Additionally...
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Nellim (category Articles containing Skolt Sami-language text)
that has three distinctly different cultures: Finns, the Inari Sámi and the Skolt Sámi. Nellim is approximately 42 kilometres (26 mi) northeast of Ivalo...
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