Sami dialects

[Vincent]

well...this post may be a bit out-topic but i'll post it all the same 'cause i think they're strictly related.
I'd like know as much as you can about sami languages, i know they're not kind of finnish dialects but maybe they're very similar,aren't they?
Since there's nothing about them on Unilang (i guess ) is there anyone who knows where i can find more infos concerning those languages?? i mean websites or book, too

[Varislintu]

Try these:

http://www.yle.fi/samiradio/enlink.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/sami-languages

http://www.itv.se/boreale/laante.htm

[E}{pugnator]

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_language (check also its links at the bottom)

I remember having seen a norwegian version of this article with more links, but I couldn't find it on norwegian wikipedia.

[E}{pugnator]

Looks like i found more stuff:

http://www.gs.bergen.hl.no/fagside/valg.html - there's a list of sami links.

http://www.samisk-sr.no/
The most important one. The name of the language is samisk in norwegian, not sami, hence my difficulty in finding it at first.

http://troms.kulturnett.no/bibliotek/samisk/samisk_spraak.htm

http://www.oahpponeahtta.no/

http://www2.skolenettet.no/imaker?method=modulshow&id=101891&malgruppe=0&trinn=0&niv=&enr=&vismen=0&mal=modulforside

http://www.ur.se/ur/sok/frameset_web.html?/samasta
Looks like a course in Swedish.

http://home.online.no/~sveilund/sami.htm

[E}{pugnator]

Could an admin move this into the Sami forum?

[Jonne]

i know they're not kind of finnish dialects but maybe they're very similar,aren't they?

Hmm no, a finn can't understand Sámi a word. They belong to the same language group.. but are far away from each other. (Of course they share some similar words)

[Loiks]

Saami is still the closest relative to Finnic family. I see lots of similar stems with Finnish and Estonian. But, yes, it doesn't make it understandable though.