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  Nordic Culture > The Sami languages - Scandinavica.com
The Sami languages are nowadays official in some Sami territories of Norway, Sweden and Finland, and are taught and learnt at schools and universities.
Northern Sami is the largest-spoken Sami language, used by a 75% of all the Sami-speaking population.
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)

  
  Sami languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Sami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken in parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwestern 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.
Sami is an official language of the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger and Tana.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sami_languages   (908 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : Europe : Finland : Lapland
The motif was derived from the shaman's drum and the poem "Paiven parneh" ("Sons of the Sun") by the south Sami Anders Fjellner (1795-1876).
The Sami were conquered by the Norsemen in the 9th century AD and by the Russians in the 11th century.
According to the Swedish Sami parliament the Sami population of Norway is 40 000.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Europe/Finland-Lapland.shtml   (1374 words)

  
 Sami languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sami_language   (851 words)

  
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Kemi (Northern Sami: Giepma) is a town and municipality of Finland.
The main economic activity in Kemi is centred on two large paper and woodpulp mills and on the only chromium mine in Europe (which supplies the Outokumpu ferrochrome plant in Tornio).
Kemi also has a claim to fame as the home of the world's largest snow castle (reconstructed every year with a different architecture).
portable-apps.subiectiv.com /portable.php?title=Kemi   (200 words)

  
 Sami Information Center - sami yusuf
Sami is a general name for a group of the adnan sami khan adnan sami Uralic languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe.
There sami lukis in ralph are, however, sharp and absolute sami greaves language boundaries, in particular between Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, the speakers of which are not able to understand sami lucas each other without learning or long practice.
Sami is an official language of the municipalities sami zaffuto of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger sami mp3 and adnan sami songs Tana.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Sami.html   (857 words)

  
 The Sami vs. Outsiders
For the Sami, another issue was that the farmers acquired their grassland by ditching, which drew water from the lakes.
To the Sami its construction was seen as an infringement of their natural resources, since it involved the construction of a road across important grazing and calving areas.
Helander, Elina “The Sami of Norway.” 9 pp.
www.utexas.edu /courses/sami/dieda/hist/sami-west.htm   (4950 words)

  
 Australian Information from Wikipedia
Lule Sami (julevsáme) is a Finno-Ugric, Sami language spoken in Lule Lappmark, i.e., around Luleå Sweden and in the province of Nordland in Norway.
It is reported that the number of native speakers is in sharp decline among the younger generations.
In Lule Sami, the negative verb conjugates according to tense (past and non-past), mood (indicative and imperative), person (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and number (singular, dual and plural).
www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Lule_Sami   (511 words)

  
 Sami languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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.
The Northern Sami dialect has had more than one grammar, but in 1948 a common grammar was created.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sa/sami_languages.html   (603 words)

  
 Árran Archive: The Great Päiviö Dynasty
The first inhabitants in Lapland were the Sami and, consequently, the oldest known residents of Kittilä were also of Sami origin.
The Kemi Lapland was part of Länispohja and belonged to the northern bailiwick of Pohjanmaa province.
Sami families in Kittilä were the Päiviös, Torajainens, Suikkis, Vasaras, Riimis, Pokkas, Kittis, Vuollis, Logjes, Niklaavus, and Nikoteemuses.
home.earthlink.net /~arran2/archive/paivio.htm   (2369 words)

  
 Bona Kemi
Kemi is a town and municipality of Finland.
Kemi was founded in 1869 by Royal decree, because of its proximity to a deep water harbour.
Kemi Sami is a dialect of the Sami originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around Kuusamo.
www.breadlike.com /pages7/10/bona-kemi.html   (1272 words)

  
 Kemi Sami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kemi Sami is a dialect of the Sami originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around Kuusamo.
A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sami dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sami and Skolt Sami (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).
Johannes Schefferus's Laponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sami Olaus Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot".
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/k/ke/kemi_sami.html   (166 words)

  
 Tornio - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The theory that this region was unhabited and "colonised" from Viking Age onward is nowadays abandoned.
Until the 19th century, individuals speaking Kemi Sami inhabited the area, that's a Finnish-like language although categorised as part of the Eastern Sami group.
Torneå (se: "Torne river") got its town charter from the King of Sweden in 1621 and was officially founded on the island of Suensaari (fi: "Wolf Island", probably named after one of the main landowners of the past).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tornio   (765 words)

  
 Sami history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many Sami families were forced to adapt their way of life, accept the authority of their respective government and adopt Lutheran Christianity.
All claim the right to tax the Sami people, and Finnish-speaking tax collectors from the northern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia reach the northern coasts, their Russian colleagues collect taxes as far west as the Harstad area of Norway and the Norwegian tax collectors collect riches from the inland of the Kola peninsula.
However, the Sami areas are being increasingly exploited by the new mines in Kiruna and Gällivarre, and the construction of the Luleå-Narvik railway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sami_history   (2369 words)

  
 Tornio
The theory that this region was unhabited and "colonised" from Viking Age onward is nowadays abandoned.
Until the 19th century, individuals speaking Kemi Sami inhabited the area, that's a Finnish-like language although categorised as part of the Eastern Sami group.
Torneå (se: "Torne river") got its town charter from the King of Sweden in 1621 and was officially founded on the island of Suensaari (fi: "Wolf Island", probably named after one of the main landowners of the past).
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/to/Tornio.htm   (688 words)

  
 Akkala Sami
Akkala Sami is a Sami language that was spoken in the Sami villages of A´kkel and Ču´kksuâl, in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
Formerly erroneously regarded as a dialect of Kildin Sami, it has recently become recognized as an independent Sami language that is most closely related to its western neighbor Skolt Sami.
The last known speaker of Akkala Sami, Marja Sergina, died on December 29, 2003 and it is now extinct.
www.wordinfo.co.za /wiki/Akkala_Sami   (649 words)

  
 Uralic languages - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Uralic locative suffix exists in all Uralic languages in various cases, e.g., Hungarian superessive, Finnish essive, North Sami essive, Erzyan inessive, and Nenets locative.
expressions that include a numeral are singular if they refer to things which form a single group, e.g., "négy csomó" in Hungarian, "njeallje čuolmma" in Northern Sami, "neli sõlme" in Estonian, and "neljä solmua" in Finnish, each of which means "four knots", but the literal approximation is "four knot".
Sammallahti, Pekka (1993): Sámi – suoma – sámi sátnegirji (Northern Sami – Finnish – Northern Sami Dictionary).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Uralic   (983 words)

  
 IgoUgo: Travel Reviews, Vacation Pictures, Travel Deals
Kemi served as the gateway to our Lapland adventure.
In winter, tourists from around the world head toward the industrial town of Kemi to experience a true Arctic adventure: the Sampo icebreaker.
Instead of the traditional kota (the traditional dwelling made of reindeer skin which resembles a teepee), they live in a modest wood-paneled house with electricity but no running water.
www.igougo.com /experience/archive31.asp   (802 words)

  
 Árran Archive: Fisher "Lapps" in Esko
In settlement days, the present village of Esko did not exist; it was Thomson Township and the area occupied the eastern end of Carlton County perhaps twenty miles from Cromwell.
The name Maranen is another version of a common Swedish Sami name, usually written as Marainen or Marakatt.
Sophia Maranen Anderson told the story about this guy who was bragging about what a great sled deer he had, until one time it turned on him and he had to hide under the sled.
home.earthlink.net /~arran2/archive/fisher-sami.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lapland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kemi is a port and has large sawmills and pulp mills and a power station.
57,389), capital of Lapland prov., N Finland, at the confluence of the Ounas and Kemi rivers.
Commercial and agricultural fairs and winter sports events are held in the city.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lapland   (686 words)

  
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Scholars have speculated that the Sami originally spoke a non-Uralic or ancient Uralic tongue and then incorporated the languages of the Baltic-Finnic tribes with there arrival.
During the Middle ages the Sami tribes lived as far south as the modern city of Tampere.
The word Tundra appears in many languages around the world and is of Sami origin, it is interesting considering the general geographical location of the Sami.
members.tripod.com /Daniel_Kravin/lappb.htm   (372 words)

  
 Sámi drums or «runebommer»
Written sources confirm that drums also existed in eastern Sámi areas other than Kemi, but none survive and neither their construction types nor their design styles are known.
However, in spite of the clear similarities in the decoration both between the South Sámi drums and the neighbouring Ume Sámi ones and between the Kemi Sámi drums and the North Sámi ones, the latter categorisation is probably the better one for two reasons.
The two surviving Kemi Sámi drums have the two horizontal lines in common with the North Sámi ones, but differ from these in numerous ways.
old.no /samidrum   (1667 words)

  
 Sameskolstyrelsen : The authority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Sami Education Board is an administrative authority for the Sami schools in Sweden.
The administrative activities are regulated in an ordinance for the Sami schools.
The Sami Education Board consists of five members who are appointed by the Sami Parliament for a specific amount of time.
www.sameskolstyrelsen.se /myndigheten.asp?L=EN   (163 words)

  
 Finno-Ugric languages at AllExperts
A portion of the Baltic-Finnic lexicon is not shared with the remaining Finno-Ugric languages and may be due to a pre-Finnic substrate, which may coincide in part with the substrate of the Indo-European Baltic languages.
As far as the Sami (Lappic) languages are concerned, a hypothesis has been advanced that the ancestors of the Sami originally spoke a different language, but adopted their current tongue under the pressure of their Finnic-speaking neighbours.
The numbers from 1 to 10 in Finnish, Estonian, Võro, North Sami, Erzya, Meadow Mari, Mansi, Hungarian, and Proto-Finno-Ugric.
en.allexperts.com /e/f/fi/finno-ugric_languages.htm   (2392 words)

  
 Uralic languages Summary
Uralic locative suffix exists in all Uralic languages in various cases, e.g., Hungarian superessive, Finnish essive, North Sami essive, Erzyan inessive, and Nenets locative.
Some Sami languages, for example Skolt Sami, distinguish three degrees: plain [l], palatalized <'l> [lʲ], and palatal [λ], where <'l> has a primary alveolar articulation, while has a primary palatal articulation.
expressions that include a numeral are singular if they refer to things which form a single group, e.g., "négy csomó" in Hungarian, "njeallje čuolmma" in Northern Sami, "neli sõlme" in Estonian, and "neljä solmua" in Finnish, each of which means "four knots", but the literal approximation is "four knot".
www.bookrags.com /Uralic_languages   (1410 words)

  
 Kemi Sami - Gurupedia
Kemi Sami is a dialect of the Sami originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around
A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sami dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sami and
Skolt Sami (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).
www.gurupedia.com /k/ke/kemi_sami.htm   (169 words)

  
 Finland Tour A Winter's Tale
In Kemi, you will travel by snowmobile on the vast expanse of ice for a rendezvous with icebreaker Sampo to take part in its journey through the frozen sea.
A minimum of two passengers are required for the tour to be operated.
On the way enjoy a lunch by the warm fire in the Sami kota (tent).
www.scantours.com /finland_in_winter.htm   (535 words)

  
 Finnish Lapland travel guide - Wikitravel
Kemi — bleak paper industry town best known for the world's only Arctic icebreaker cruises for tourists and the world's largest snowcastle
Trains will get you to the provincial capital Rovaniemi, at the edge of the Arctic Circle or to the northernmost railway station, Kolari.
If entering from Sweden, there is a gap in the network between the Swedish border at Tornio and Kemi, but the connecting bus is free with Interrail.
wikitravel.org /en/Finnish_Lapland   (1247 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Finno-Ugric languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thus, the English word in each row should be regarded as an approximation of the original meaning, not a translation of the other words.
Sammallahti, Pekka, Matti Morottaja: Säämi - suoma - säämi škovlasänikirje (Inari Sami - Finnish - Inari Sami School Dictionary).
Sammallahti, Pekka: Sámi - suoma - sámi sátnegirji (Northern Sami - Finnish - Northern Sami Dictionary).
www.nowtryus.net /article:Finno-Ugric_language   (1811 words)

  
 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Sami history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Sami peoples have inhabited the northern regions of Scandinavia for a long time in coexistance with other peoples.
The genetic lineage of the Sami is very unique, and may reflect an early history of geographic isolation, genetic drift, and genetic bottle-necking.
The making of the hydro power dam in the 1960s and 1970s contained controversial propositions such as putting a village (Maze) and a cemetery under water.
random.dragonslife.org /sami-history/5445   (1140 words)

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