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	Sami languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Sami languages are spoken in Lapland in Northern Europe, in a region stretching over the four countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, reaching from the southern part of central Scandinavia in the southwest to the tip of the Kola Peninsula in the east.
		The last speaker of Akkala Sami is known to have died in 2003, and the eleventh attested variety Kemi Sami became extinct already in the 19th century.
		Sami is an official language of the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger and Tana.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sami_languages (843 words)

	Samische Sprachen - Wikipedia
		Sami (auch Samisch oder Saami, in der älteren Literatur auch als Lappisch bezeichnet) ist eine Gruppe von finno-ugrischen Sprachen, die von ca.
		In allen vier Gemeinden ist Nordsamisch anerkannt, in Inari daneben auch Inarisamisch und Skoltsamisch.
		Sami kann im amtlichen Verkehr in den Kommunen Arjeplog, Gällivare, Jokkmokk und Kiruna verwendet werden, d. h., dass jeder Same das Recht hat, in seiner Sprache mit den Behörden des Staates und der Kommune zu verkehren und eine Antwort in seiner Sprache zu bekommen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/samische_Sprache (808 words)

	The Sami in Finland — Virtual Finland
		The Sami practised Fishing, hunting and small-scale reindeer herding in an area reaching from Lake Ladoga to the Arctic Ocean and from the White Sea to the Köli Ridge.
		Sami culture is based on the divers and sustainable use of their territory in order fulfill the basic needs of the people.
		The administration of the educational centre is dominated by Sami, and new teachers are to be proficient in Sami.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/saameng.html (3093 words)

	Nordic Culture > The Sami languages - Scandinavica.com
		Northern Sami is the largest-spoken Sami language, used by a 75% of all the Sami-speaking population.
		Inari Sami enjoys official status in the region where it is spoken and can be learnt at some schools.
		Kemi Sami was spoken in the southernmost regions of Finnish Lapland and neighbouring Russia until the 1850s and was quite close to Inari Sami and Skolt Sami.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/language/saami.htm (917 words)

	Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are three Sami languages that are spoken in Finland: Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami.
		Swedish has an official language status in Finland, and the right of other minority groups (in particular Sami people) to cherish their culture and language is protected by law.
		The Sami are an indigenous people living in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finland (5819 words)

	Sami languages - Slider
		Sami is a general name for a group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe.
		The Sami languages in the Scandinavian Peninsula form a continuum where dialects from areas close to each other are mutually intelligible but the distance in language increases with geographical distance.
		By contrast Inari Sami and Skolt Sami are completely separate languages with clearly defined linguistic and geographical borders.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Lappish_language (642 words)

	TRN - Taiga Rescue Network - the Boreal forest
		Inari is located in Lapland, the extreme north of Finland, on the northernmost edge of pine forest.
		Sami reindeer herding is based on free grazing and natural pastures in forests and fells.
		In five reindeer herding co-operatives and one sub-unit of Inari reindeer herders feel they are competing for use of land with Metsähallitus, who has a dual role as both the responsible authority and a land user.
	www.taigarescue.org /inari (913 words)

	National Minorities of Finland, The Sámi — Virtual Finland
		Inari and Skolt Sámi are each spoken by less than 15% of Finnish Sámi speakers.
		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.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/minorit3.html (3530 words)

	Sami_languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		'''Sami''' is a general name for a group of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe.
		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.
		Akkala (Babino) Sami is known to have had one living speaker still in 2002, but now the language is probably extinct.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Sami_languages (836 words)

	Wind Caravan-Observation of Our Planet
		Inari is a kind of capital for the Sami people in Finland.
		The Sami are originally nomads who used to roam with their reindeer freely across the borders of Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
		It is surely because of the Sami and my many friends why Wind Caravan Inari Finland fills me with warm memories even in minus 40°C that I experienced at the coldest.
	www.wind-caravan.org /en/saites/finland/after.html (567 words)

	Inari_Sami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		'''Inari Sami''' (''anarâškiellâ'') is a Sami language spoken by some 300-400 people in northern Finland.
		The main centre is the town of Inari.
		However, only about 10% of public servants in the area can actually serve the Inari Saami-speaking population in Inari Saami, so Finnish is used by the remaining 90%.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Inari_Sami (193 words)

	Sami language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sami is a general name for group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Lapland, including partsof Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe.
		There Skolt Samis, which inhabited the Petsamo area, were resettled to themunicipality of Inari in Finland after its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1944.
		The Northern Sami dialect has had a more than one grammar, but in 1948 a common grammar was created.
	www.therfcc.org /sami-language-71290.html (470 words)

	The Sami and Lapland - Scandinavica.com
		There are 10 Sami languages spoken from Norway to Russia, although depending on the country where they live, they can speak Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish or Russian.
		- The Nordic Sami Council was established in 1956 among the Sami in Finland, Norway and Sweden.
		The traditional Sami song, the Joik, with the Norwegian Sami singer Mari Boine Persen and the Finns Nils Aslak Valkeapää and the techno innovative Wimme Saari.
	www.scandinavica.com /sami.htm (772 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		The Sámi Homeland of Finland covers the municipalities of Enontekiö, Utsjoki and Inari and the Lappi Reindeer Herding District - the village of Vuotso - in the municipality of Sodankylä.
		Inari is the only one of the municipalities of the Sámi Homeland where all these three Sámi languages are spoken.
		Especially the Inari and the Skolt Sámi languages are threatened, as these languages are not supported as strongly as North Sámi is by the Nordic community.
	www.ogmios.org /174.htm (1941 words)

	Sami languages
		The Sami languages are spoken by the Sami people living in Lapland in Northern Europe.
		The remaining living 4 Sami languages have very few speakers and are in danger of extinction.
		They are Akkala (Babino) Sami, Ter Sami, Pite Sami and Ume Sami.
	sami-languages.ask.dyndns.dk (642 words)

	ipedia.com: Sami languages Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sami is a general name for group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Laponia, including parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe.
		There Skolt Samis, which inhabited the Petsamo area, were resettled to the municipality of Inari in Finland after its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1944.
		In Finland, the language law of 1992 grants Sami people the right to use the Sami languages for all government services.
	www.ipedia.com /sami_languages.html (527 words)

	Requests for new languages/No supporters - Meta
		Inari Sami is an official language in Inari.
		Inari Sami seems to be further apart from Northern Sami than Aromanian is from Romanian.
		Skolt Sami is an official language in Inari.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/No_supporters (3201 words)

	Save the Sámi Reindeer Forests: Greenpeace Forest Rescue Station, Inari Finland
		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.
		Saami Council, common organization of sámi in four states, is deeply concerned about the confrontation between free grazing reindeer herding and forestry in Inari municipality, which under the veil of employment issues in a harsh way aims to put the sámi reindeer herders, who defend their livelihood and traditional culture, in their place.
		Inari, Lapland/Amsterdam 2nd March 2004: Greenpeace today announced that it would be stepping up its campaign to protect remaining ancient forests in Finland by establishing a Forest Rescue Station in the last Sámi reindeer forests of Arctic Lapland...
	weblog.greenpeace.org /forestrescue/archives/media/index.html (591 words)

	Sami/Saami/Lapp language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Sami is a Finno-Ugric language with about 20,000 speakers.
		The main dialects of Sami are: Northern Sami, spoken by about 15,000 people in Norway, Sweden and Finland; Lule Sami, with about 1,500 speakers in Norway and Sweden; Kildin Sami, spoken in the Kola peninsula of Russia by about 650 people, and Southern Sami, with around 600 speakers in Sweden and Norway.
		Sami languages spoken in Finland include Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, which is also spoken in the Kola peninsula.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/saami.htm (276 words)

	Saariselka - In the Heart of Lapland
		Inari is the largest municipality in Finland in terms of area (17,321 square kilometers).
		The population density in northern Lapland is 0.5 inhabitants per square kilometer of land.
		Inari is the administrative center of Finland's Sami population.
	www.saariselka.fi /eng/northlapland.html (232 words)

	Cruise Norway: Hurtigruten, lapland excursion
		Feed the reindeer and visit the small family museum, and listen to the interesting history of the Sami and about their culture.
		If you would like to further exploring the Sami culture, the Inari Open-Air Museum is open during the summer to complement the exhibitions at SIIDA.
		It presents typical dwellings of Sami fishermen and the nomadic Sami.
	www.cruisenorway.com /lapland.html (494 words)

	Research - Linguistics - School of Classics and Linguistics - University of Canterbury
		This project is undertaken by Dr Ida Toivonen and is supported by grants from the University of Canterbury and the British Academy.
		The project focuses on Inari Sami, which is a seriously endangered Finno-Ugric language spoken in Northern Finland.
		The project has the following main goals: (1) to finish a descriptive grammar on Inari Sami; (2) to investigate in detail specific aspects on Inari Sami; and (3) to compare and analyse various phenomena in several Finno-Ugric languages.
	www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /research/inari.shtml (117 words)

	Reporter 460, 4 December 2000
		Dr Nelson and her friend are now in the process of collating dozens of tapes of spoken sentences, dialogues, songs and stories in order to compile the first reference grammar of the language.
		There are also different words for male and female reindeer, white reindeer (a sacred animal to the Samis), and reindeer pulling a sled, and different words for older and younger siblings; there is also a special word that means "a hole in the ice".
		The Inari Samis hope to match the linguistic success of their neighbours, the Northern Samis, who have around 20,000 native speakers and Northern Sami language teaching programs in local schools.
	reporter.leeds.ac.uk /460/s5.htm (722 words)

	Inari Sami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inari Saami (Säämegiella) is a Sami language spoken by some 400 people in northern Finland.
		Inari Sami has an official Roman alphabet and some literature exists.
		Interestingly, there is one rap artist, Amoc, who raps in the language.
	inari-sami.ask.dyndns.dk (92 words)

	Science Fair Projects - List of grammatical cases
		Erzya \| Estonian \| Finnish \| Hungarian \| Inari Sami \| Lithuanian \| Northern Sami
		Estonian \| Finnish \| Inari Sami \| Northern Sami
		Erzya \| Estonian \| Finnish \| Inari Sami
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/List_of_grammatical_cases (601 words)

	Sami Statistics
		The Sámi languages have been considered separate languages especially after the six main varieties got their own ortographies, or standard ways of writing.
		Inari Sámi is a language that has traditionally been spoken only within
		Skolt Sámi was traditionally spoken in the western part of the Kola Peninsula, from which native speakers of Skolt Sámi moved to
	www.sami-statistics.info /default.asp?nc=6253&id=46 (1054 words)

	OLodging.com -- Destination Guides - Europe & ...
		Situated about 230km north of Sodankylä, INARI lies along the fringes of Inarijärvi, one of Finland's largest lakes, and makes a rather attractive point from which to base further exploration of this part of Lapland.
		An excellent outdoor section gives you an idea of how the Sami survived in Arctic conditions in their tepees, or kota, while the indoor section has a well-laid-out and easy-to-understand exhibition on all aspects of life in the arctic.
		Most of these trips will take you out to an ancient Sami holy site on an island in the middle of Inarijärvi at Ukkonkivi, named after Ukko, the Sami equivalent of the Norse god of thunder, Thor; a plaque marks an ancient site of worship rumoured to have been a place of sacrifice.
	guide.olodging.com /index.jsp?cid=75914&action=viewLocation&locationId=34320 (395 words)

	Barentsinfo : Ulapland.fi/Kotisivut/Barents portal/Barents region/Cooperation/Organizations/Calotte Academy/Calotte ...
		The idea is to integrate the Calotte Academy 2005 to the other international and local events in Inari at that time, for example, the International seminar on Economic Cooperation in Reindeer Herding in the Barents Region, the Ijahis Idja Music Event and the Premiere of Saami People Documentaries.
		In 2005 these kinds of themes are human development and impacts of globalization in the North on one hand, and on the other hand, a role of science and research in regional development in Northern regions, particularly in the North Calotte, and that of cold climate research and technology testing in North Lapland.
		As a part of the Calotte Academy 2005 there is a open, public hearing on a state of human development, and of impacts of globalization in the North, particularly in North Lapland - based both on the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR) and the current state of human, economic and cultural development of the region.
	www.barentsinfo.org /?DeptID=18309 (744 words)

	GeoNative - Sápmi - Lappland (Samiland) - Laponia
		Northern Sami is the most widely spoken Sami language.
		It is written in a Latin script based on a new Sami standard, Latin 9.
		Sami hizkuntzak eta beren eremuak / Regional domain of the Sami languages
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/sami.html (467 words)

	Page - [Group] - Linguistics - University of Canterbury
		Her research draws mainly upon Swedish, Finnish and Inari Sami.
		Counting and the grammar: Numerals in Inari Sami (with Diane Nelson).
		Phonetic salience and language change: Verb paradigms in Inari Sami.
	www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz /people/toivonen.shtml (350 words)

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