comments on dialect vs. language + sami language resources

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comments on dialect vs. language + sami language resources

Postby arran » 2005-12-26, 7:20

Bures!
Mo manna?
Mu namma lea Casey.
Mun orrun Minneapolisis.
Mun máhtan vehaš sámigiella.

Glad to see there is a Sami language forum!

I speak a bit of North Sami, speak fluent Norwegian (native English.)

The Sami languages are distinct languages, not dialects. You might say they are language groups: Lule, Inari, Kildin, North, Skolt, and South Sami. Each group has its own x number of dialects. There is no understanding between the language groups, except in cases where the dialect regions closely border one another, there is a gradation.

See our websites for more resources on Sami languages and culture, I am posting a link to this forum on our links page under language also.
Árran http://home.earthlink.net/~arran2/index.htm
Árran blog http://arran2.blogspot.com/
Sami Siida of North America http://home.earthlink.net/~arran4/siida/index.htm

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Postby Jonne » 2005-12-26, 10:28

Hey :D good to have another teacher here then hehe..

And Sámi languages/dialects, they can be called both. I saw a sámi language book and it called the different variates accents/dialects, not languages.. But I agree than they are ahem quite different from each other.

Same thing with Meänkieli spoken in Sweden. In sweden they say that it's a real language, distinc from Finnish.. but here we see it as a dialect :roll:


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