The Sámi languages form a branch of the Uralic language family. According to the traditional view, Sámi is within the Uralic family most closely related to the Finnic languages(Sammallahti 1998). However, this view has recently

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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 Peninsulain the east. The borders

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The Proto-Samic language is believed to have formed in the vicinity of the Gulf of Finlandbetween 1000 BC to 700 AD, deriving from a common Proto-Sami-Finnic language (M.

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Most Sami languages use Latin alphabets, with these respective additional letters.
Northern Sami: Áá Čč Đđ Ŋŋ Šš Ŧŧ Žž Inari Sami: Áá Ââ Ää Čč Đđ Ŋŋ Šš Žž Skolt Sami: Ââ Čč Ʒʒ Ǯǯ Đđ Ǧǧ Ǥǥ Ǩǩ Ŋŋ Õõ Šš Žž Åå Ää (soft sign ʹ and a separator ʼ) Lule Sami in Sweden: Áá

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Norway
Adopted in April 1988, Article 110a of the Norwegian Constitutionstates: "It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions enabling the Sami people to preserve and develop its language, culture and way

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• Sami parliaments of Finland, Norway, and Sweden
• Norwegianization
• Pre-Finno-Ugric substrate

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At present there are nine living Sami languages. The largest six of the languages have independent literary languages; the three others have no written standard, and of

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