Postby nighean-neonach » 2007-02-05, 10:40
Another interesting online course from the same source:
http://www.ur.se/ur/sok/frameset_web.html?/samasta
This is Lule Saami! This dialect is spoken south of the North-Saami area, in northern Sweden. (Northern Saami or Davvi Sámegiella is spoken in Norway north of Narvik, north of Kiruna in Sweden and in the North of Finland, apart from the Inari area.)
Northen Saami is the most active dialect nowadays, but Lule is its close neighbour, so it might be interesting as well. The spelling is a bit different, and lots of phrases seem to be completely different, but that's typical for everyday phrases (greetings etc.) in every language with regional variants. The basic grammar seems to be rather similar.
Writing poetry in: Scottish Gaelic, German, English.
Reading poetry in: Latin, Old Irish, French, Ancient Greek, Old Norse.
Talking to people in the shop in: Lithuanian, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Saami.
Listening to people talking in the shop in: Icelandic, Greenlandic, Finnish.