Sámi

Also known as Sami languages, Saami languages, Sami, Saami, Sámi languages, Lappish, Lappic, Samic

group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in northern Europe

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The Sámi languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Sámi people, an indigenous group living in northern Europe. These languages matter because they represent the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Sámi, and their preservation is important for maintaining the diversity of European languages and cultures.

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 25000
Commons category: Sami languages
Commons gallery: Sami languages
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SMI

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The Sámi languages ( US: /ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee, UK: also /ˈsæmi/ SAM-ee), also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the indigenous Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwestern Russia). There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi languages, including Sámi, Sami, Saami, Saame, Sámic, Samic and Saamic, as well as the exonyms Lappish and Lappic. The last two, along with the term Lapp, are now often considered pejorative.

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