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	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)

	Sami language communities and the conflict between Sami and Norwegian
		The Sami entail the majority of the population in the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Tana and Nesseby.
		In Norway, the Southern Sami language region stretches from the south of Saltfjellet in Nordland, to Elgå, by Femunden in Hedmark.
		Official policies concerning the Sami and their culture have gradually changed from the time in 1963, when the Norwegian Storting debated the first report on the Sami language and culture, to the Sami Act of 1987, and the language provisions of the Sami Act that were passed in 1990.
	www.uit.no /ssweb/dok/Joho/Niillas/1993ucen.html (7056 words)

	The Sami of Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thus, the everyday use of the Sami language is decisive in determining a person's right to be classified as a Sami and his or her right to vote for representatives to the Sami Parliament or be eligible for election.
		Sami was taught in the schools, and new institutions were established, such as the Sami Collections in Karasjok and the South Sami Collections, a museum and cultural centre for the South Sami, in South Trøndelag county.
		Major elements of the Sami cultural tradition are the yoik (Sami music which consists of rhythmic sung poems or poetic songs) the Sami language and legends, turf huts, shamanism, folk medicine, Sami national dress, the use of reindeer sleds for transport, the making of carved wares, and a knowledge of ecology.
	www.reisenett.no /facts/culture_science/sami.html (4060 words)

	The Sámi (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From 1773 on Sámi language teaching was forbidden and all teaching had to be in Danish until nineteenth century.
		The Sámi languages are regarded as Finno-Ugric languages and their closest relatives are the Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian).
		Sámi language and culture courses are taught at several universities in the Nordic countries.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq23.html (3700 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)

	Sami in Sweden
		Regional or minority languages are languages which differ from the official language of the state where they are spoken and which are traditionally used within a given territory by nationals of that state who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the population.
		The studies showed that the way the Sami language was taught in Sami schools and compulsory schools was not particularly effective, especially for children who had a low level of knowledge of Sami at the start of their schooling.
		A project on Sami children's command of the Sami language was conducted at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_sami_in_sweden.htm (5248 words)

	Sami Culture and Human Rights
		The Sami language is the foundation of the Sami education and culture.
		The Sami language and culture are not adequately transmitted by the generations of grandparents and parents to those children under school-age who do not receive daycare in that language.
		The purpose of this activity is to undermine the identity of the Sami minority and to obscure and deny the existence of the Sami culture.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/sami1.html (2500 words)

	MERCATOR :: Butlleti 58: Sami Language Act - Finland
		A corporation and a foundation whose language of record is Sámi has the right to use its language of record before the authorities; the provisions in section 4 on the right of a Sámi to use the Sámi language apply, in so far as appropriate, to this right.
		Knowledge of the Sámi language can be demonstrated by an examination referred to in the Act on Public Language Examinations (668/1994), by an examination passed in the context of studies, or by studies in an institution of tertiary education.
		When the Sámi language is being used in the oral hearing of a matter in accordance with this Act, the matter shall be assigned to an official with knowledge of the Sámi language.
	www.ciemen.org /mercator/butlletins/58-03.htm (2735 words)

	ipedia.com: Sami languages Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Skolt Sami (Näätämö and the Nellim-Keväjärvi districts, Inari municipality, Finland, also spoken in Russia, previously in Norway) SIL code: LPK, ISO 639-2: smi
	www.ipedia.com /sami_languages.html (527 words)

	Board of Directors
		She conducted linguistic fieldwork in Somalia (1979-85), leading to the co-authoring of a dictionary of the Somali language, and anthropological fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico (1988-93), leading to her doctoral dissertation on Tzeltal Maya concepts of health and illness.
		In 1996, her interest in the relationships between language, knowledge, and the environment, and between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity prompted her to co-found Terralingua and to launch its activities with the interdisciplinary conference Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge, Endangered Environments (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.).
		She was the founding chair of the Sami Youth Organization in Finland, established in 1991, and served as the Vice-President of the Sami Council, NGO representing Sami organizations, for two years.
	www.terralingua.org /BoardofDirectors.htm (1738 words)

	Sami history.
		The settlers moved into the areas "unused" by the Sami's, farming and cattleranches was a source of livelihood which contrasted strongly with the traditional Sami lifestyle.
		Some Sami's in the forestarea founded homesteads on their own land, but until the 1970's there was a law stating that a Sami wasn't allowed to build a house larger than a rather modest size.
		Some -but not all- Sami organizations are bodys to which the proposed legislative measure is referred to for consideration together with the farmer and forestry organizations who protests the initiative strongly.
	www.itv.se /boreale/history.htm (2105 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Culture
		The Sámi language of the Inari region [Inari is actually the Finnish name for the community; in Sámi it is written Ânar] was already under threat of extinction.
		But better times are on the way: children are learning the language in day care, it is used in school, and now it can be listened to even in rap songs.
		The vocabulary of the language describes nature in rich, intricate detail, and there are around one hundred words for different types of snow, but a street-savvy youthful vocabulary has not been needed in the fells.
	www.hs.fi /english/article/1101978492530 (846 words)

	SAMI ARTIST CENTER. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SDG`s task is mediation directed by artists themselves, first and foremost in the Sami community, but also in connection with the presentation of exhibitions and projects to the outside world.
		The center is also intended to help to increase the use of art in the sami community, to assist by providing consulting services in connection with assignments for the embellishment of public buildings, and to build up documentation records of the activities of its members.
		An examole of such a project was the population of the Sami Artists`Encyclopedia in 1994.
	www.samiskkunstnersenter.no /sac.html (528 words)

	The UN Works for Cultural Diversity: Endangered Language of the Sámi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As she beholds the snow-covered landscape of northern Sweden, with tall trees frosted in gleaming white snow and ice, Anna Karstedt sings a song in celebration of the magical scene before her.
		There are 17,000 Sami in Sweden, of whom around 7,000 have mastery of the Sami language.
		The language belongs to the Finno-Ugric family along with Hungarian, Finnish, Mordvin, Ziryen and Estonian.
	www.un.org /works/culture/sweden_story.html (596 words)

	Ice-Floe: Contributors A - D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Askold Bazhanov, a Kola Sami, was born in 1932 in the Murmansk region.
		Her first language in Tlingit; she began to learn English upon entering school at the age of eight.
		Lyubov Demina was born in 1950 in the village of Balygychan on the banks of Kolyma River.
	www.icefloepress.org /contriba-z.shtml (3638 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)

	Sami Culture Library - Sami Language (Saami Language) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sami Culture Library - Sami Language (Saami Language)
		Article about Minority language and language in general using Sami as a jumping off point.
		Sami Language Communities and the Conflict Between Sami and
	home.earthlink.net /~arran4/siida/sami-language.htm (165 words)

	Endangered languages in Europe: report
		Remarks: There are people living in the Isle of Man who have studied Manx as a foreign language, but who wish to be called speakers of Manx.
		Remarks: five Turkic languages are known to have been spoken in Crimea, viz Crimean Tatar, Krimchak, Karaim, Nogai, and Turkish; two of them, Crimean Tatar and Nogai, are also spoken in Dobruja; a lot of confusion exists in general literature
		There are also secret or in-group languages of nomadic groups like Polari and Shelta (Cant) in the British Isles, Quinqui in Spain, and Yeniche in central Europe.
	www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/europe_report.html (9417 words)

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