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	Inari Sami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inari Sami (anarâškielâ) is a Finno-Ugric, Sami language spoken in Finland by some 300-400 people, the majority of which are middle-aged or older and live in the town of Inari.
		All announcements in Inari, which is the only officially quadrilingual municipality in Finland, must be made in Finnish, North Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami.
		In Inari Sami, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative and optative), person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and number (singular, dual and plural).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inari_Sami (709 words)

	SENC
		The Saami, living in the northern parts of Scandinavia and Finland and in the Kola Peninsula, are the only indigenous people in the EU to have their own language, culture, means of livelihood and identity.
		The prominent communal elements of ancient Saami beliefs, such as the shaman system, joint seita worship by the whole siida and the bear cult, were uprooted by the 18th century at the latest, but the individual practice of nature religion, such as private seita worship continued until the last century.
		Since the Saami were regarded to be a less-developed people, it was natural to assume that many of their cultural features were originally loans from more developed neighbouring peoples (diffusionism); Saami culture was thus felt to provide possible evidence on the earlier stages of the mainstream culture.
	www.helsinki.fi /~sugl_smi/senc/english/presentation.htm (5663 words)

	Wikipedia: Saami language
		The Saami languages are languages from the Finno-Ugric languages group, spoken by the Saami people of Lapland.
		There have been a number of grammars for this dialect, but in 1948 a common grammar was created, and was last modified in 1985.
		Skolt Saami (Näätämö and the Nellim-Keväjärvi districts, Inari municipality, Finland, also spoken in Russia, previously in Norway; Skolts were resettled to Inari from the Petsamo area after its annexation by the Soviet Union)
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sa/saami_language.html (219 words)

	Sami languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parts of the Sami language area form a dialect continuum in which the neighbouring languages may be to fair degree mutually intelligible, but two more widely separated groups will not understand each others' speech.
		There are, however, sharp and absolute language boundaries, in particular between Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, the speakers of which are not able to understand each other without learning or long practice.
		The Sami language act of 2003 made Sami an official language in Enontekiö, Inari, Sodankylä and Utsjoki municipalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sami_languages (865 words)

	THE ORIGIN OF FINNISH AND RELATED LANGUAGES
		Saami languages spoken in Finland include Inari Saami and Skolt Saami (the latter is also spoken in the Kola peninsula), with a few hundred speakers each; these languages are highly threatened.
		Many minor Saami languages are on the verge of extinction (Ume and Pite Saami in Sweden and Akkala Saami in Russia), while the speakers of many others are numbered in dozens or hundreds (Southern Saami in Sweden and Norway, Inari and Skolt Saami in Finland, and Ter Saami in Russia).
		The Saami are not mere reindeer herders, though this is the main source of livelihood for many of them, the Northern Saami in particular.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/kulonen/Finf13uk.htm (3122 words)

	National Minorities of Finland, The Sámi — Virtual Finland
		Inari and Skolt Sámi seemed doomed to extinction, but their future now looks brighter since "language nests" were established for children to safeguard the survival of both languages.
		It is situated in Inari and functions as the main institution for vocational education in the Sámi Homeland.
		The Saami Council (Sámiráðði), established in 1956 as the Nordic Saami Council, is now a joint consultative body of the Sámi associations in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26473 (3530 words)

	Mitrochondrial DNA Diversity in Europe
		With the exception of the Saami, all European populations have distributions that tend to have a single mode at 3 to 5 substitutions and have identical sequence pairs at frequencies of 5% or less.
		Since the Finns and the Karelians live in the same or close geographical region with the Saami, the presence of the motif at low frequency in the Finns and the Karelians is most likely due to a mixture between these populations and the Saami.
		This substitution is found in Saami populations with frequencies varying from 9 to 60% (Table 2 and Table 3); it exists in other populations as well, although generally at a lower frequencies (0-12.7%).
	www.promega.com /geneticidproc/ussymp6proc/antti.htm (3115 words)

	VVV.KOTUS.FI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Saami languages belong to the indigenous languages of Europe and to the most closely cognate languages of the Baltic-Finnish languages.
		North Saami is the principal teaching language in some of the schools in Inari and Utsjoki, and it is now even possible to take the matriculation examination in North Saami.
		As for the people speaking Skolt and Inari Saami, they live mostly in the municipality of Inari, which is the only four-language municipality in Finland: the official communications are aways in Finnish, Inari Saami, Skolt Saami and North Saami.
	www.kotus.fi /kielet/saame/inenglish.shtml (501 words)

	Save the Sámi Reindeer Forests: Greenpeace Forest Rescue Station, Inari Finland: Saami Council calls for Sámi ...
		At the Saami Council meeting at Karesuvanto at end of March, the logging dispute in Inari was discussed and a decision was made to support the Inari reindeer Sámis in the bizarre situation caused by the logging work of Metsähallitus.
		The Saami council thinks that the nature of the forest-logging dispute is not just a problem between Sámi reindeer herders and other local people, but that the core issue is unresolved Sámi land rights issues.
		The Saami Council is shocked about by how the Finnish forest enterprise Metsähallitus has adopted a policy of scaremongering amongst local lumberjacks, using them as tools for their dirty work, by threatening them with loss of jobs.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /forestrescue/archives/2005/04/saami_council_c_1.html (583 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		INARI, Finland — The Governor General's quick side trip to Inari, a Saami centre of 2,200 in northern Finland, was a chance for Saami, Inuit and the Canadians visitors to learn and share.
		At the reindeer farm outside of Inari, inside a fire-lit log tipi, Into and Marit Ann Paadar accompanied their traditional drum, the romppu, and performed Saami songs, or joiks.
		Inari's elegant new $9-million museum, which started as a modest open-air exhibit in the 1960s, was built in 1998 by the Finnish government and the European Union.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/31017/news/features/31017_02.html (808 words)

	FORUM - Preparing to Print Topic 'WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ESTONIA???'
		In the 1950s-60s the Saami of the inner parts of the Kola Peninsula, were uprooted from their traditional habitation areas and forced to live in one centre Luujaavv'r.
		Saami parents in Russia urged their children to speak Russian, in order for them to be able to compete with the majority population in meeting the requirements of society.
		The Akkala and Ter Saami dialects are disappearing quickly because there are too few speakers, and members of the younger generation are not learning to speak these languages as their mother tongues.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?action=print&TID=951 (2137 words)

	Kola-Saami Documentation Project - Project
		The aim of the project is to provide comprehensive linguistic and ethnographic documentation of the endangered Saami languages of Russia, which are spoken in the northwestern-most region of Russia (Murmansk Region – Murmanskaja oblast') on the Kola Peninsula.
		Saami itself is a branch of the Uralic language family.
		The absence of a language environment in which the language is spoken by everyone all the time as well as a lack of social motivation for language use pose a threat to the survival of the languages.
	www2.hu-berlin.de /ksdp/project.html (492 words)

	Nordic Culture > The Sami languages - Scandinavica.com
		Northern Saami is the largest-spoken Sami language, with speakers in the three Nordic countries.
		Inari Sami enjoys official status in the region where it is spoken and can be learnt at some schools.
		The municipality of Inari has four official languages (Finnish, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami and Northern Sami), and therefore local government communications are set to be quatrilingual..
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/language/saami.htm (917 words)

	Hypoactasia in Saami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Subpopulations of the Russia (Kildin) and Finland Saami are characterized by a large variability of the LAC*R (lactase restriction) gene frequencies (0.5-0.77).
		The results of last-name analysis showed that the percent of the bearers of the traditional Saami family names among the inhabitants of Lovozero village who identify themselves as Saami was 55% in 1970-77, 48% - in the 1980’s and 37% in 1995.
		The Scandinavian Saami (the Inari and the Mountain groups) are characterized by a high frequency of p gene and an extremely low frequency of q gene.
	www.user.cityline.ru /~tksggver/ak/hypolactasia.html (2390 words)

	House of Commons - Environmental Audit - Written Evidence
		The Saami Council has consultative status within the UN-system and is also part of a global network of indigenous peoples now recognised as one of the Major Groups within the UN framework.
		We can of course be wrong, but the Saami Council is not convinced that the FTSE 4 Good Index would hold that a failure by Finland and/or a state owned company to act to protect the Saami culture legitimises Stora Enso to contribute to the violation of the Saami people's human rights.
		AN The Saami Council is of course aware of the forestry industry's importance to Upper Lappland's economy.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmenvaud/607/607we14.htm (5307 words)

	Saami Learn\|Children's, Saami Lernen,
		Of the ten Saami languages, three are spoken in Finland: North, Inari and Skolt Saami.
		North Saami is the largest group, spoken by 70 % to 80 % of the Saami.
		It is thus the most important Saami language and as such the natural mode of communication in Nordic Saami cooperation.
	www.worldlanguage.com /German/Languages/Saami.htm (293 words)

	UNESCO in action culture: Anna's quest: UNESCO
		Today, Saami children have the right to be educated in their mother tongue, although few follow this route.
		The Saami language is generally classified in the Finno-Ugrian family, bearing similarities to the languages of the Baltic Sea like Finnish and Estonian.
		Only one is listed in the simply “endangered” category: North Saami, spoken by 80 to 90 percent of the Saami who still speak their language – about 30,000 people – living in the four countries concerned.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=10411&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (1874 words)

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		The Inari Muncipality (a public body, thus directly bound by international law, and with a duty to remain neutral in case of a conflict between different members of the municipality, may they be Saami or Finnish) responded by collecting signatures, demanding that Greenpeace abandon the camp and leave the area.
		Without awaiting the results of the surveys of Saami land rights that it claimed to be conducting, and “behind the back” of the Saami parliament, Finland had construed legal evidence that it is the owner of the land areas in question.
		The Saami parliament is engaged in a process to have the deeds revoked.
	www.saamicouncil.net /files/20050825120136.doc (1800 words)

	Inari Sami
		Inari Sami (Saami, Sámi, Lappish, Lapp) is spoken by 300-400 people who live around Lake Inari in Lapland in Northern Finland.
		Inari Sami is one of the Sami (Saami, Sámi, Lappish, Lapp) languages.
		The difference between the nominative and accusative case of 'tooth' is that the consonant 'n' is longer in nominative than in accusative.
	www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /personal/toivonen/sami (408 words)

	Saami bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In fact, Saami is a language group consisting of 9 closely related but different languages.
		Early attempts to translate the Bible into Saami were of course not made easier by the fact that no written language existed and by the differences in dialects and languages.
		In Lule Saami, the NT of 1913 was revised by the Swedish Bible Society and came in AD 2000.
	www.same.net /~girku/bibel/sbibel_e.htm (591 words)

	Nordic Annual Report 2002 - Nordic Council & Nordic Council of Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Saami culture is closely related to the Saami language or languages.
		There are many variations of Saami, and a Saami from Trøndelag in the south of Norway will not understand the North Saami variant of the language.
		A Saami text bank containing articles from Saami newspapers, old and new texts from books, and tape recordings of Saami languages is just one of the initiatives to promote Saami language research.
	www.norden.org /web/2-3-aarsb/2002/EN/17.htm (1031 words)

	WANDERINGS, WONDERINGS - A TRAVEL LOG TO SAAMI EATNAMA
		The gakti is the traditional costume of the Saami, and the colors and appearance vary according to region and Saami subgroup.
		The Saami college of Kautokeino is conceived exactly for that purpose, and it offers young Saami the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in Nortern Saami language.
		In Finland, the Inari and Skolt Saami are not on the verge of extinction like Ter Saami in Russia (20 speakers) or Pite Saami in Sweden (maybe 10 speakers), but the survival of a language is difficult to imagine if only 6 children can get exposed to the language in an early age.
	www.phonono.com /Wanderings-wonderings.html (3262 words)

	Inari Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		By the 1970s the Saami language was once again taught to children in Saami schools.
		The majority of reindeer-breeding Saami have retained the daily use of the Saami language and the colorful traditional clothing.
		Traditionally the Saami religion was shamanism, a belief in spirits that communicate with the shamans or priests, but today shamanistic practices are overshadowed by participation in the national churches of the various countries where Saami reside.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Finland/Lappi/Inari-241183/Things_To_Do-Inari-BR-1.html (790 words)

	Variants of Japanese (was: Re: Unilingua) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		ISO 639-2's code "sme" is mapped onto North Saami, the big one, with about 21,000 speakers in Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
		Then there's Lule Saami (smj) with 2000 speakers in Sweden and Norway, Kildin Saami (sjd) with 800 speakers in Russia, South Saami (sma) with 600 speakers in Sweden and Norway, Skolt Saami (sms) with 320 speakers in Finland and Russia, and Inari Saami (smn) with 250 speakers in Finland.
		The other five Saami languages that have Ethnologue codes are extinct or nearly so.
	www.alvestrand.no /pipermail/ietf-languages/2005-September/003616.html (294 words)

	The Little Prince Saami - Sámi (Skolt) - Lapon
		Remarks: The Skolt and the Inari Saami editions were published in 2000 for a number of 500 speakers each.
		The Saami language is nowadays spoken by around 35,000 - 40,000 people and divided into 10 dialects.
		The main distinction is made between Eastern, Northern and Southern Saami dialects; Skolt Saami belongs to the "Eastern group" and is spoken by about 500 people between Inari and the Russian border - see also: Ethnologue Database and The Sámi Languages.
	www.petit-prince.at /pp-sami-s.htm (152 words)

	Viceland - GORY DAYS - MC Amoc is Bringing Back the Dead
		There are really few Inari Saami people, no more than like 350 in the world, and most of them are over 50 years old.
		The reason I speak Inari Saami is because my father always spoke it with me, and I speak it at work.
		Teachers who speak Inari Saami are so few so I came on as teacher because without me there weren’t going to be any Inari Saami teaching at all.
	www.viceland.com /se/v2n5/htdocs/gory.php (533 words)

	Reindeer Crossing by Françoise Beniston
		Our destination is Inari, about 300 km north of the Arctic Circle, on the western shore of Lake Inari, the heart of Inari Saami country.
		Beyond the vast wooded valleys, the summer afternoon sun takes forever on its way to the horizon, filtering light through the crests of birches and pines, washing the rivers and ponds in white silver.
		Where to stay: In Inari, the Inarin Kultahovi Hotel offers comfortable rooms, a sauna, a full service bar, and a restaurant open from breakfast to dinner.
	www.travelsearcher.com /features/reindeer.html (1135 words)

	Phrasebase™ - SAMI LANGUAGE Facts and Information - SAMI Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		INARI: Lapland, above 68.00N Lat., in an area about 15,400 square miles between Lake Inari and the Norway border.
		INARI: 250 speakers out of 700 population (1995 M. Krauss).
		INARI: Finnish Saami all know Finnish and speak it for all purposes outside their work as reindeer herdsmen.
	63.217.229.7 /languages/index.php?cat=180 (457 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Inari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is fed by the Ivalojoki and empties into the Arctic Ocean through the Paatsjoki.
		Lake Inari contains more than 3,000 islands and is a tourist attraction.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Inari" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/Inari.asp (180 words)

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