Saami, North Language (sme) - Revision history

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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Saame,Northern Lappish,Lapp,Norwegian Lapp,Norwegian Saami,Northern Lapp,Saami,Samic,Same,Davvin,Saami, North,Northern Saami

<b>Description:</b>

Northern or North Sami (Davvisámegiella, formerly Davvisámi or Davvisaami; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland as well as northwestern parts of Russia. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000. About 2000 of these live in Finland and between 5000 and 6000 in Sweden.
Northern Sami was first described by Knud Leem (En lappisk Grammatica efter den Dialect, som bruges af Field-Lapperne udi Porsanger-Fiorden) in 1748 and in dictionaries in 1752 and 1768. One of Leem's fellow grammaticians was Anders Porsanger, who studied at the Trondheim Cathedral School and other schools, but who was unable to publish his work on Sami due to racist attitudes at the time. Unfortunately, the majority of his work has disappeared.
The roots of the current orthography for Northern Sami were laid by Rasmus Rask who, after discussions with Nils Vibe Stockfleth, published Ræsonneret lappisk sproglære efter den sprogart, som bruges af fjældlapperne i Porsangerfjorden i Finmarken. En omarbejdelse af Prof. Knud Leems<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1169505 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Saami, North Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/norway Norway]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/finland Finland]
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>se</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>sme</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Uralic Group]]

    [[Finno-Ugric Group]]

      [[Finno-Permic Group]]

        [[Finno-Cheremisic Group]]

          [[Finno-Mordvinic Group]]

            [[Finno-Lappic Group]]

              [[Lappic Group]]

                [[Northern Lappic Group]]

                  <b>[[Saami, North Language]]</b>

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