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The Sami languages are spoken in Sápmi 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 borders between the languages do not align with the ones separating the region's ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List ... Sami: 23,000 [114] 104 Walser German: 20,000 [115] Sorbian (Wendish)
Sámi-speaking people (2 C) T. Translators of the Bible into Sámi (3 P) W. Western Sámi languages (4 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Sámi languages"
Education with Sámi as the first language is available in all four countries, and also outside the Sámi area. Sámi University College is located in Kautokeino. Sámi language is studied in several universities in all countries, most notably the University of Tromsø, which considers Sámi a mother tongue, not a foreign language.
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.
The European Union regards Luxembourgish as a minority language, too, as it is not an official language of the EU. Through June 13, 2005, the Irish language also had this status. In recent years, some countries of the EU have begun assorting the status as a minority language to various sign languages .
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
Portugal; São Tomé and Príncipe; Punjabi: ... Number of countries language spoken English: 101 French: 60 ... Sami: Finland (in four ...