Information on the Sami language:
Sami is the language spoken in the northern regions of Scandinavia.
Lapland stretches from the western coast of Norway across Sweden and Finland to the Kola Peninsula.
The language itself is an independent language, not a dialect, and belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages.
The language itself is divided into 9 subgroups, whereby the one I am using here is Northern Sami and is spoken by around 15,000 people, making it the most widely spoken language.
The sub-groups are so different from each other that the inhabitants cannot understand each other.
All of these language groups were only spoken languages for a long time and it was only in the last century that the written language and grammar were developed and codified.
Today, after being banned in schools for a long time, it is once again being taught to young people in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
I have used this language in parallel in all headlines about Lapland, partly because I love the sound of this language more than anything, and partly because a large part of the population does not know that these languages exist.
I would like to thank my friend Anne Gro Gaup for her help, especially with the grammar.
Mun liikon dutnje nu ollu Anne Gro!