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Sami languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Sami is frequently (and erroneously) believed to be a single language. Sami is an official language of the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger and Tana. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sami_languages   (869 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)

WikiMiki.net - Sami languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Sami is a general name for a group of the Uralic languages spoken in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami were still free to cross the border between Sweden and Norway according to inherited rights laid down in the Lapp Codicil of 1751 until 1940, when the border was closed due to Germany's occupation of Norway. Sami language is studied in several universities in all countries, most notably the University of Tromsø, which considers Sami a mother tongue, not a foreign language. sami.languages.en.wikimiki.net   (10372 words)

SAMI IN SWEDEN However, Sami is not considered to be a fully official language and it is not usually possible for speakers to address the Administration in the language. Sami children can complete their primary schooling either in the regular State-supported schools in their home districts or at one of the State-run Sami schools where children are taught in both the Sami and the Swedish languages. Sami people, today, have more means to reproduce their own language, although the survival of Sami does not depend on institutional help but on its speakers' attitudes and life conditions. www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/sami/an/i2/i2.html   (3450 words)

Odinarkiv - The Sami of Norway I 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. odin.dep.no /odinarkiv/norsk/dep/ud/1997/annet/032005-990462/index-dok000-b-f-a.html   (4060 words)

[No title] The Sami are known to have fished and hunted seals on the west coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, but in the late Middle Ages the Swedish agricultural population "invaded" the coastal area, pushing the Sami further north. Sami as an elective language is taught in primary schools in several places in Lapland. Sami language and culture courses are taught at several universities in the Nordic countries. www.renne.com /dmaternal/Sami.html   (3495 words)

Odinarkiv - The Sami of Norway I Sami culture was clearly influenced by the fact that the Sami previously lived by hunting and fishing. Sami are active in most trades and professions in modern Norwegian society, though surveys have revealed that they are not so well represented in the service industries as in other branches. from Norway, NRL and NSR and from Finland, the Sami Parliament. odin.dep.no /odinarkiv/norsk/.../032005-990462/index-dok000-b-f-a.html   (4060 words)

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 in Sweden Teaching is to be conducted in Swedish and Sami and the Sami language is to be a subject in all grades. 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. Sami Studies at Umeå University offers courses in North Sami each year at the A and B levels and Lule and South Sami are offered every other year at the A and B levels. www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_sami_in_sweden.htm   (5248 words)

Uralic languages -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) 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. Sammallahti, Pekka (1993): Sámi – suoma – sámi sátnegirji (Northern Sami – Finnish – Northern Sami Dictionary). psychcentral.com /psypsych/Uralic   (1186 words)

Untitled Document Storli, I. (1996) On the Histography of Sami Reindeer Pastoralism. Bratrein, H.D (1984) Fra samisk "overhøyhet" til norsk i Tromsen len på 14/1500 tallet (From sami to Norwegian dominance in the county of Tromsen in the 15th and 16th century). Adstratum and substratum in the Norwegian, Sami and Finnish for Northern Norway. www.uit.no /acta/bibliography/subjects   (3157 words)

washingtonpost.com: Loudoun Home Sales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) GOODWOOD TER., 21861-Parkside at Ashburn Corp. to Jayapal Pullangari, $244,400. TRAJANS COLUMN TER., 43803-Qian Yang and Jianbo Gou to Hamid Haghnegahdar, $360,000. COBBLER TER., 619-Kathy A. and Scott J. Averys to A. Stanton and Alistair Stanton, $286,000. www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A55788-2004Oct22?language=printer   (3584 words)

Indigenous links. The Sami parliament in Finland has updated their website, and even gotten a domain of their own. The Sami institution at the University of Ume. Sami village project, comparative Religion studies by University of Turku, Finland. boreale.konto.itv.se /aelmetjh.htm   (881 words)

Finno-Ugric languages - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) 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. According to data obtained in several representative studies on the genes of Europeans, strong presence of genetic lines which can be associated with the modern Finnic-speaking peoples are found throughout northern Europe from the British Isles to the Ural area. Sammallahti, Pekka: Sámi - suoma - sámi sátnegirji (Northern Sami - Finnish - Northern Sami Dictionary). finnougriclanguages.quickseek.com   (2539 words)

GeoNative - Sápmi - Lappland (Samiland) - Laponia 70.000 Sami inguru daude, gehienak Norvegian, baina erdiak baino gutxiago egiten du samieraz. Northern Sami is the most widely spoken Sami language. It is written in a Latin script based on a new Sami standard, Latin 9. www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/sami.html   (467 words)

Nordic FAQ - 2 of 7 - NORDEN - allanswers.org Ter (Turja) language - in eastern Kola peninsula [500] As there are several languages, there are also several grammars and orthographies for them. The areas 2 - 5 have more or less the same written language but several orthographies. * The Sami in Finland by the Foreign Ministry of Finland. www.allanswers.org /travel/nordic-faq/part2_NORDEN-2.htm   (4625 words)

U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Finland: Background The mores of colonists - who were mainly farmers, lived in houses and produced wool and butter - were very different from the traditional occupations of the Lapps. However, the colonists were able to integrate with and adapt to the Sami way of life. In the 19th century, the establishment of a school system changed behavior towards the Lapps and their culture and allowed a limited use of “Sámegiella”, which would subsequently be eliminated. www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=60&TID=2   (2973 words)

[No title] Sloveniji le trije ali stirje aktivni ATV operaterji, ter en klub, ki se je takrat poiskusal usmeriti v to smer. S to kratico se predstavljamo pri nas in v tujini, ter na Internetu. Na ATV repetitorju je bila zamenjana crno-bela kamera z barvno v vodotesnem in ogrevanem ohisju, dodan je bil rotarij z azimutom in elevacijo, ter kot najvecji zalogaj: dokoncan je bil ATVRC sistem: racunalnik s kontrolnim in krmilnim enotam za repetitor. lea.hamradio.si /~s51kq/zip/ATV_N.010   (2870 words)

Breaking the rawls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Inare Sámi in Finland and Skolt and Kildin Sami on the Kola peninsula are in a similar, or worse, position. Pite Sámi and Ume Sámi in Sweden, together with Akkala and Ter Sámi in Russia are ‘moribund’, that is, they are no longer transmitted at all, and Kemi Sámi has ceased to be. This pattern is reproduced all around the developed world. www.hivolda.no /index.php?ID=11475&view=printer   (2608 words)

[No title] A History of the studies of the Kola Sami in the 1920s-1930s. Kuropjatnik Marina, The Ter Sámi according to the Russian census of 1858: ethno-social characteristics. Rasmussen Hans-Erik, The Sami on the Kola Peninsula, in: The Barents Region. www.rovaniemi.fi /files/2005031212044.doc   (1387 words)

««ß£ög_ðä_ß¡ßy»»   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Mais hj eu vo escrever rapido pq eu vo ter ki sair a 1:00 hehehe! Léo vlw por ter ligado tbm viu mininu!!! Entrei na net agora pra ver c eu axava um trabalho um pokinhu menor pra mim num ter ki fikar copiandu tudu akilo ki eu tinha achado ontem... www.blogdabiby.weblogger.terra.com.br /index.htm   (2286 words)

M E T U L J I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) V sklopu angleškega jezika se seznanjamo še z drugimi kulturami ter običaji v Sloveniji ter v drugih državah. Pri izboru dejavnosti v skupini, sodelujemo ter pomagamo Iztoku in Petri s svojimi idejami in predlogi. Ker smo že tako veliki za večino dejavnosti poskrbimo kar sami. www2.arnes.si /~vvzljjel/skupina_metulji.htm   (168 words)

Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe In this HTML document, clicking on the name of a language will retrieve a PDF file with data for that language. Example: In Northern Sami, the order “A, Á, B, C...” indicates that, in the sources, A and Á are considered separate letters and would have their own chapters in a dictionary (arahad, arába, áhkku, bures, cavihit, cábadit). Letters in (parentheses) are fundamental letters normal to the alphabet of a languages, used in writing native or naturalized (non-foreign) words, but which are, in the sources, interfiled with the base letter. www.evertype.com /alphabets   (3504 words)

EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study Presence and use of the language in various fields to appoint the board of the Sami schools to advise the Swedish authorities on Sami affairs ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/sv2_en.html   (3513 words)

Ummah.com - fave nasheed singer disagree with both of you, sami yusuf has the best voice...mashallah I've been a big fan of Br Dawud's Nasheeds and i love Al Mualeem by Br Sami but i brought a tape by Br Khalid Belrhouzi feat Br Yusuf Islam called "Qasidah Burdah" and he recites Qasidah Burdah so beautifully that i've voted for him :) The tape is practically in my stereo all the tym, it is fab-diddly ocious :p and i recommend it to anyone, it has no instruments. www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=44708   (410 words)

FinnLinks - Languages Category Finland is a multi-lingual country - Finnish (94%), Swedish (6%) and Sami (0.1%). For Sami languages, it includes: South Sami, Ume Sami, Pite Sami, Lule Sami, North Sami, Kemi Sami, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Akkala Sami, Kildin Sami, Ter Sami under the topic headings: Variant spellings, Geographic locations (not all the above-named Samis were in Finland), Present State of the Language and Sources. It is spoken by 9 million native speakers in Sweden and Finland. www.genealogia.fi /finnlinks/show.php?cid=29   (2014 words)

GeoNative - Uralic languages in Russia We have here a list of languages with number of speakers; then, each language linked in that table has its own placename list available at GeoNative. Outside Russia the following Finno-Ugric languages are spoken: Estonian (also Võro variety), Finnish (minority lg in Sweden and Norway), Livonian (in Latvia), Sami (in Sweden, Norway and Finland) and Hungarian (minority lg in several countries). See also other tables from the former Soviet Union,. www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/finnou.html   (232 words)

The Abacus: Java Applet Source Code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) The rest of the time was spent getting around the bugs in the AWT. The Java Abacus applet was the 13th or 14th applet to be added to Sun's Cool Java Applets page maintained by Sami Shaio. I then submitted the applet to the Alpha Java Contest judged by marca, avh and jag; it was fun winning an honourable mention in the contest. www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080 /~elf/abacus/source-code.html   (351 words)

Endangered languages in Europe: report Please read the background information and use the indexes for easier access. Geographical location: last spoken in Sodankylä and Kuolajärvi (Salla) counties of Lapland Province of Finland where became extinct in the 19th century; formerly in more southerly areas as far as Kuusamo County Geographical location: Finland: Sevettijärvi area in Inari County of Lapland Province, mainly by people evacuated from former Finnish territory of Petsamo; the Russian Federation: earlier westernmost Murmansk Province, now translocated in Lovozero, central Murmansk Province; formerly also easternmost Finnmark Province of Norway www.helsinki.fi /~tasalmin/europe_report.html   (9417 words)

FAIR Archives: Browse By Issue Area Action Alert: NBC Distorts Its Polling on Warrantless Wiretaps: Russert, Reid paint public as backing Bush (2/10/06) CounterSpin: Naomi Klein on torture, Eric Boehlert on Sami al-Arian (12/16/05) Action Alert: The Consequences of Covering Up: Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request (11/4/05) www.fair.org /index.php?page=7&issue_area_id=39   (286 words)

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