math82 Newbie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5429 days ago 17 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian
| Message 1 of 11 27 September 2012 at 10:08pm | IP Logged |
Hi,
Can anyone point me in the direction of some Sami recourses? I'm aware it's a rare/small group, and a quick google
search has not yielded much.
Thanks in advance
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 11 27 September 2012 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
You may want to check this thread:
Scandinavian/Nordic language resources (scroll down to davidwelsh's post)
I'm quite sure that forum member Chung has posted something as well, but I can't find anything at the moment.
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7146 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 3 of 11 28 September 2012 at 1:47am | IP Logged |
Chung actually did a profile on the Saamic languages:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=22142&PN=1
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 11 28 September 2012 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
Ah, there it is! I searched for Saami instead of Saamic....
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math82 Newbie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5429 days ago 17 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 11 28 September 2012 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
Hey, thanks, the profile is petty extensive and has some good starting points. Looks like I'll need to try and learn
some Norwegian as a gateway language first : )
Ah, on further inspection, there are some Saami - Russian materials. Excellent
Edited by math82 on 28 September 2012 at 9:40pm
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davidwelsh Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5531 days ago 141 posts - 307 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, Norwegian, Esperanto, Swedish, Danish, French Studies: Polish, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, Mandarin
| Message 6 of 11 30 September 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged |
I'd recommend the Gulahalan free online course. The vocabulary lists are Sami/Swedish, but you can use an online
dictionary to translate the Swedish terms into English. I've made Sami/English
BYKI vocabulary lists for the first few lessons of the course, which
should be enough to get you started at least:)
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| Message 7 of 11 01 October 2012 at 4:35am | IP Logged |
math82 wrote:
Hey, thanks, the profile is petty extensive and has some good starting points. Looks like I'll need to try and learn
some Norwegian as a gateway language first : )
Ah, on further inspection, there are some Saami - Russian materials. Excellent |
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There is indeed a bit of material that uses Russian as the intermediary language but as far as I can tell it's only for Kildin Saami. If your goal were to study Inari Saami or Skolt Saami, you're better off to know Finnish to at least a high-beginner's level to use what's available. For the remaining Saamic languages in print, you're you're indeed better off getting at least a high-beginner's grasp of Norwegian (or Danish or Swedish, I suppose) so that you can likewise use what's available in those languages.
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 8 of 11 01 October 2012 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
Was going to ask, does Sweden not have a Sami minority up north in Norrland?
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