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The borders between the languages do not align with the ones separating the region's modern states. During the Middle Ages and early modern period, now-extinct Sami languages were also spoken in the central and southern parts of Finland and Karelia and in a wider area on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The Sámi (/ ˈ s ɑː m i / SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) ... The majority of the Sámi now speak the majority languages of the countries they live in, i.e ...
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Asturianu; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български
The Sami languages are a group of related languages spoken across Lapland. They are distantly related to Finnish. The three Sami languages spoken in Finland, Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, have a combined native speaker population of only 2,035 in 2022 albeit there are more than 10,000 Sami people in Finland. [8]
A 2000 survey by the Sami Language Council showed Kautokeino Municipality and Karasjok Municipality as 96% and 94% Sami-speaking respectively; [9] should those percentages still be true as of the 2022 national population survey, this would result in 2,761 and 2,428 speakers respectively, virtually all of which being speakers of Northern Sámi.
Åarjel-saemiej skuvle (Southern Sámi school) and maanagierte (kindergarten) in /Snåasen Municipality.. Southern or South Sámi (Southern Sami: åarjelsaemien gïele; Norwegian: sørsamisk; Swedish: sydsamiska) is the southwesternmost of the Sámi languages, and is spoken in Norway and Sweden.
The Sami people are indigenous to Northern Scandinavia, [2] [3] and though they have largely adopted Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or Russian—due in no small part to official assimilation policies [4] —some still speak their indigenous Sami languages. Sami languages, like Kven and Finnish, belong to the Uralic language family. By far the ...
The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/ j ʊəˈr eɪ l i ə n / yoor-AY-lee-ən), [3] are spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers), Finnish , and Estonian .