Such a beautiful indigenous language. Watching in the UK.❤

Let's just say I learned Sami "by accident", learning other languages was not for the purpose of learning Sami afterwards.

I found I had to first learn Swedish, some Finnish, & Bokmål (with bits of Estonian to familiarize myself with another sister tongue to Sámi) to be able to use the more vast tools the Scandinavian tongues have for learning Sámi languages since there’s such a low demand from native English speakers.

I've been studying the same languages. Have done for a while now. Nice to see others do the same. Great choices :)

​@@eddyc8900 did you do it just for fun? Or like deeply (maybe as your profession or sth)

@@user-ok4uj3hp4g For the fun of it I suppose. I don't make any money out of learning languages. Wish I did. But I live in England. No one cares about any of those languages here. I'm a Finnish descendent though. Maybe that explains why. However, it's rare for anyone in the Nordic countries to learn a language that is less spoken than their mother tongue. Unless they're into Linguistics. I am :)

French sounds the nicest

@@mickeydrago9401 french is not uralic

@@ciekce and it still sounds so smooth... french...

@@mickeydrago9401 literally completely irrelevant to the comment you replied to, and in my opinion french sounds mediocre anyway

@@ciekce Aesthetics can be quite axiomatic and arbitrary but clearly more guttural languages like German and Hebrew and even Dutch with it's smoother French ends all have their guttural problems... French is the most beautiful I have heard... Perhaps I should listen to this video more ;) Females make any language sound more beautiful and to music even harsh languages can sound beautiful I hear enough trashy staccato garbage accent ridden Spanish here in Florida and yet when I listen to Julio Iglesias I know what the best Spanish is The president of Mexico Nieto speaks great Spanish, typical of leaders...

Ohh my name is sami from pakistan

My whatsapp number +923136800717 contact me

@@samiyousafzai4620 Hands down, the best comment

@@lashforbates lmao

sami people don't divide themselves into northern sami or whatever, they think they're just one ethnic group, please don't do that.

I choose to see Klaus in Mandarin, and she is still speaking Sami. I study chinese so that is why I did that. So funny, from 我不要说吧。and then into that adorable little girl voice.

@@taiwanisacountry same here Andreas, although I'm in Taiwan and the accents were very mainland :) Margu's Sami is just delightful

Same lol

@@seancrowe3353 Mandarin has accent🤯🤯 jk, I can't tell them appart

@@compulsivecommenter990 oh yes, quite distinct accents

why, largely a waste of time unless u want to establish some academic legacy for such a lingo? or what?

@@mickeydrago9401 If you learn a language you like it's not waste of time. Not everything must have some kind of practical value. However because of internet you can actually interact with people all around the world if you so desire to.

@@mickeydrago9401 She's actually utilizing her brain, instead of deadening it with "snapchat".

@@tiihtu2507 "Northern Sami, known natively as Davvisámegiella, is spoken by as many as 25,000 people, primarily in the nordic nations of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.Jun 10, 2016" So some of them should be found online...

@@sanjuro66 Take a look, you got to be unique to raise your score: "Your Snapchat score will only increase by sending photo and video Snaps! Text messages sent through the Snapchat app do not count. You don't get extra points for sending the same Snap to multiple users. You need to send a unique Snap in order to get a point.Dec 28, 2018"

Tha Gàidhlig agam cuideachd!!

ayy tha gàidhlig agam

Northern Sami is a Uralic language like Finnish so maybe you understands alot of words?

@@_McCormickProductions Some of the words are actually quite close. (Such as giellakieli) Sámi languages however differ a lot from neighbouring languages, it’s way easier to understand e.g. Estonian as a Finn than any of the Sámi languages.

Unfortunately, many European countries forcefully integrate people. For example the Occitan invasion from the French.

Fulvio Lumachi alot of times the speakers of endangered languages leave it since its not a practical language. It doesn't have alot of modern words like car or airplane and they borrow ALOT of words from a language that does have those words. After a while the speakers say 'why am I speaking this language if the other one has more speakers and is complete.' This is why my family converted from speaking yaqui (native american langauge) to spanish.

@@xxjr8axx I know. But 1) you can borrow words from another language, if they really don't exist 2) you contribute ti make it die. The world goes on yes, but how? Sadly..... To care about Your personal things I think this should be the main aim. Look at, for example, the Maltese. 200.000 people in this minusculous country. They do speak Malti, Maltese. And they really do, with Italy, 60 million people so close and with English spoken by hundreds and hundreds of million people throughout the world.

@@rejencann7411 Thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of languages have died out due to assimilation in human history. Europeans weren't the only ones to forcefully integrate people. One of the most brutal linguistic and cultural assimilations in recent history I can think of is the Karakhanid assimilation of Sakas and Tocharians, both Indo-European people, who lived in the Tarim Basin, Buddhist and Manichaean, until around the eleventh century when the Muslim Karakhanid Empire conquered a land, shat on the Buddha idols, and had them all speaking Karluk Turkic and worshipping Mahomet by the time Marco Polo arrived at the Taklamakan desert. Around two centuries later the Mongols conquered the land and those who stayed there became the Dzungars. Following the Mongol upheaval the cultural groups in Xinjiang were quite the same until the rise of nationalism and the Bolsheviks, who decided to label all the Karluk tribes in Xinjiang "Uighurs", despite not being related to them at all (The Uighurs came from Mongolia and invaded the Tarim Basin around two centuries earlier than the Karluks, but since they were Manichaeans and Buddhists they were mostly peaceful to the Tocharians living under them so the result was more of a cultural blend than a mass assimilation by the sword as the Karluks had perpetrated). And now we have these "Uighurs" writing folk songs about how they have always been in the Tarim Basin and how Allah will destroy the Chinese civilisation and bring back almighty Turkic natives to their former glory and blah blah blah... Anyway, regarding "forceful integration", the Norse people have always been peaceful towards the Saami people. They have always viewed them as trading partners and respected their culture. If anything you should be criticising the Indian government for not protecting the Nihali language or how the Turkish government is still denying and committing humanitarian crimes against the Greeks, Kurds, Armenians, and Assyrians living in their lands, who have their own separate dialects wholly under Turkish sovereignty, most notably Pontic Greek and Western Armenian.

Who are you talking to? She's Russian and learnt it because she was interested. I'm into a whole bunch of languages that aren't necessarily 'mine'. The way to save endangered languages is to get other folk interested. More people notice. And all of a sudden, 'dead' languages come back. I've seen it happen. With Cornish and Livonian for example.

Me too!

Ra Ra I’m Estonian and there are some words that are same in Estonian but mostly it sounds like Finnish. Although I can understand some sentences

@Donald Trump But this isn't Karelian.

As an American I gave you thumbs up but I have no idea what you mean ;) You can go a long time in America without hearing a second language and then you'll hear Spanish and a much longer time before you hear an even third language.. So I find it interesting that you triangulated your native tongue with the country next door and combined it with a Baltic State lingo... I tried to teach an Estonian how to say the word earth once ;) So for your Fusion no American could imagine such a fusion ;)

I am from Denmark and I still understand some words and sentences.

@Donald Trump It sounds like Finnish, but I can only pick up words here and there. I have studied Finnish, but don't speak it fluently. I hear a little bit of Swedish or Norwegian, but I know even less of those tongues than I know of Finnish. Because I speak Russian, I can see the borrowed words in Karelian.

Giitu Rolf! :) Mun máhtán dien sáni, ledjen dušše jierásmuvvan ja in diehtán maid mun galgen dadjat.

Me when cannot speak Northern Sami: :c

@@lashforbates I've read some of the negative answers that some people posted to you , but still, in all seriousness, as a long-time simultan interpreter and translator engaged by the Norwegian Parliament and even by the Saami Parliament (common to Norway, Sweden, and Finland) as a person who has studied and worked with the North-Saami language all my life, even translated into the North-Saami language books that are being well-commented, I dare tell you that your fluency in my language is very impressive! What you have accomplished so far is just wonderful!!! This I do say as the person I really am, very proficient in my own language, the North-Saami. Congrats! Rolf Olsen

Sorry, I meant to say ... engaged by the Norwegian Saami Parliament, called Norgga Sámediggi. Excuse me!

@@rolfolsen3236 I don't see any negative comments on her

Hello, Irena. I'm very very interested in Sami people, culture, and languages (especially Northern Sami) and may I ask you 'how did you learn it?' There aren't many resources and I would be truly interested in learning it. Giitu! :D

Just watch the videos with subtitles again, I talk about how and where I learned it. :) Drop me a line if you have more questions about the Sami language or culture.

Cool!

@@lashforbates You said there are 9 different Sami languages. May I ask you to tell me how they differ from each other? Is it similar like dialects? Are people from, for example Inari, able to understand you if you speak Northern Sami?

@@hissukka6619 no, inari sami is from another group of sami languages, however if you speak lule sami you can understand around 60% of northern sami, because they're from the same group.

Fino- ugaric

Northern Sami is a Fino-Uralic language like Hungarian

as the Welsh say: "Cenedl heb iaith yw cenedl heb galon". "A nation without a language is a nation without a heart."

Laneah Aliifua lol me too

The little girl got me so bad

Hello postman

Laneah Aliifua ooooh, listen to Sámi music! Sofia Jannok, ISÁK, SlinCraze, among others. 🤩 dát lea buorre

Márgu!

We just watched it too, what a lovely movie! Great to see Samí representation :)

@@Wikitongues Didn't expected you to comment

If you are interested in Sami languages and culture, I suggest you take a look at this Sami music... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ft-ClNFo1Lu5gWQ.html

14 languages? To what proficiency are you learning them?

are you fluent in those 14 languages?

​@@ingenide I think that's not possible unless you have a crazy brain. When I started learning Japanese, I forgot a lot of French instead and Hungarian is now also taking the place of some French and Japanese again.. You'd need to speak all of em often enough to not forget them and kind of creat seperate parts in your brain for every language

@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 True. I am learning Hungarian too. Do you have Discord or Snap so we could be sort of language partners (beszélgetőtársok)

Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.

+Grandmaster Dinner Roll thank you!

What is Orange County?

+123456789 987654321 it is a magical, mythical land in Southern California. Full of sunshine and beaches.

Yassmeen Karimi Okay...

Hei, if you would like I could send you some resources! I speak Northern Sámi. I believe I have a vocabulary list from a Finnish university that might be useful for you

@@cloudberries I'm doing a paper on the Sami language and saving up to travel there...if you could send me anything on learning Sami language, I will be most grateful. 1Duram8r@protonmail.com

@@cloudberries could you help me learn the sami languange as well? I'd love to know more about this language!

I got interested in Sámi after finding resources in Kallio Library, Helsinki. When I lived there many years ago. That new Oodi place probably has a lot more than I found back then. You probably won't find any language classes south of Rovaniemi. But it only takes a few active people to change that situation :)

@@cloudberries I totally missed your comment, yeah I’m interested if you still have it!

oletko suomalaiselta

Please learn it! This is coming from a Finn. It would be a shame if some day the Sami languages would go extinct.

How come you don't speak it? Your father or mother didn't speak it with you?

@reeree its not a reason you can still speak your language even if you are colonized moreover in 2020 if one of your parent can speak it it's the good time to transmit it Otherwise it will disappear

Dat ii daga maidege.

lashforbates thank You❣️

You're probably hearing "sámegiella", which means "Sami language" ("giella" means "language" and she says it in the names of several other languages as well)

There should be subtitles available soon.

I understood words like " buore beivi" and "samigiellâ"

My mom is Calabrian. I'd bet money your username is a Calabrian/Lucanian sentence In fact, "arrassu" is probably an archaic word in my mom's dialect. Although "taliannu" and "stiddi" sound Sicilian to me.

Sámi languages are are from the same language family (Finno-Ugric) but on different branches than Finnic languages, so they are related distantly. The names for numbers and a few words are similar, but a Finnish speaker could not understand any of the Sámi languages. Northern Sámi speakers also cannot understand Finnish speakers (unless they are also fluent in Finnish). Hope this helps! 1847 ת

they're close enough to notice similarities and yet far enough to not understand each other. i'd say if you speak finnish and listen really carefully you can get at most around 20%

Gör det! Den här tjejen lärde sig norska bara för att kunna lära sig nordsamiska. Om du bara har 15% av hennes entusiasm och dedikation så kommer du också kunna lära dig!

I am not a Sami and I mentioned it in the video, but I don't really see any issue in that...

I live in Norway, not Russia, so that’s why not Kildin Sami 😊

Mun in riekta ipmirdan dien. Mii lea vieris? Lea go dat sámegiella? Lohken neahttas ahte vieris lea viidna :)))

Yes, I have been to those towns many times. Haven’t had a chance to talk to NRK yet.

Precious Purity Marshall well, we are not extinct, so yes..lol. There are many Sámi authors, writing in mother languages as well as other languages :-) most Sámis know two languages. (I am Sámi myself)

X O Wonderful! I’d love to read them. Are any books published that are both in the Sami language and then the English translation next to it so I can 1) learn the language 2) read it in both the original language and translation? Thank you!!!

Precious Purity Marshall most Sámi have either Norwegian, Swedish, or Finnish as their other spoken language, so there are very little direct translations to English. Unfortunately unless you also know one of the Scandinavian country’s languages, there are no books on it that I have seen. English is my dominant language as well so I would have dearly hoped to see it by now; I have been searching as well!

Recently published Sami books and music are described on this Norwegian website: samiskbibliotektjeneste.tromsfylke.no/tag/engelsk/ Many of the entries contain an English description of the book or album. Several books seem to have text in two or more languages. The Norwegian phrase "tekst på engelsk" means the book has text in English. Children's stories in three Sami languages (Northern, Inari and Skolt) are available online here: www.samediggi.fi/tuote-osasto/avoimet-digimateriaalit/ The stories are read aloud. Just click on the images on the first page and on the following page click on the link at the bottom of the box labeled as 'kuvaus'. Here on KZfaq and also on Spotify you can listen to the poems of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1991 for his poetry collection, Beaivi, Áhčážan (The Sun, My Father). kzfaq.info/sun/OLAK5uy_mRwv39fRfAG5rHPfguPGZfSWTaoIFaTMA

There aren't so many sources but I found some links in Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish

Come to Umeå and study in school

Almost nobody knows what the hell you're saying... How many can quantify some Midway point between Spanish and Japanese, and additionally have some idea of finn Plenty of polyglots wouldn't know what you're talkin about

@@mickeydrago9401 to be fair there is a theory that Korean and Japanese are historically related to the Finno-Ugric branch and so sounds similar but idk where he got Spanish from…

​@@mickeydrago9401Calm down and relax, he/she has only given his/her personal perception, nothing more. She/he has simply said that for him/her Northern Saami in difficulty is between Spanish and Japanese. That is her/his subjective view, it does not mean that others have to think like him/her. Even I understood what she/he meant.

​@@mickeydrago9401I know perfectly what he/she is talking about...

@@justmedino1267 I think it works in terms of ease as I speak some Spanish... Very if not perfect consistent language in terms of spelling and pronunciation... A e i o u has multiple pronunciations in English, not in Spanish

Somebody from Finland said it sounded like Swedish mixed with Estonian ;)

Probably because she is Russian living in Norway who has studied the language for 2 years. The subtitles are now available.

Was just thinking that.

I am Norwegian & yes it sounds like a mix of Russian & Norwegian! Very cool

Eadni, Áhčči, Vielja, Oabba.

@@christie_exist thanks, looks like it's a really separated Language.

Tolkien based his elves on the Finns. Watch a video of a traditional Finnish harp ensemble at full tilt and you will understand.

@@Tipi_Dan Yes, specifically Qenya, sometimes called "Elf Latin," was based on the linguistic patterns of Finnish. And the Ainulindale, Valaqenta, and early Qenta Silmarillion owe much to the Kalevala.

Tolkien was an asshole. Finnish language is amazing and has nothing to do with ugly qvenja which is cultural approptiation. Tolkien is just elvish propaganda.

Just a little bit. As a native Finnish speaker I could understand that she studied Northern Sami as a second language, but I thought her mother tongue was Norwegian although it is actually Russian. Apart from that, I could understand a few words and phrases that are similar to Finnish, such as the word 'three' and the phrase "My name is Irena", and I could also point out some loanwords from Norwegian.

@@michabach274 Interesting ,I always knew that sami and finnish are related, but not on witch level. How long ago do you think finnish and sami split apart?

@@qaecjzd That is a very good question. Sami and Finnish definitely have a common linguistic ancestor, but it seems to have existed quite a long time ago. For example, Jaakko Häkkinen, a historical linguist from the University of Helsinki, estimates that proto-Samic and proto-Finnic may have become separated 1000-500 BCE. The Finnish language later expanded into Sami territory in present-day Finland. This resulted in a situation where the two languages came again into contact with each other and borrowed words from each other.

Russia

Orange the Orange no it's from a completely distinct language family

What are the origins of the Sami language then? What is their language family?

Orange the Orange its uralic like finnish

Einar the Icewing no its not complitely different language group. Its finno-ugric language like finnish. I am a finn and I can understand some if this language. And it really sounds like mixture of finnish and swedish. For a native finnish speaker this language is propably easiest langueage to learn becousecits so similar to finnish.

Finno-urgic. So the same language family as Finnish and Hungarian. But there are big differences between Finnish and Sami. And there are big differences inbetween the different Sami languages. They're sometimes referred to as dialects, but Northern Sami, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Kildin Sami, Ume Sami and Skolt Sami are all different languages of the same people. And the Sami languages are majorly influenced by and has a lot of loanwords from Norwegian, Swedish and English, and Finnish and Russian.

برافو عليك!انا بحكي عربي كمام (انا البنت من الفيديو)

@@lashforbates How many languages do you speak

@@mickeydrago9401 12

@@lashforbates Holy crap! Polyglot! I have heard upwards of four to five fluently is kind of a normal human maximum, so how many fluently?

@@lashforbates "Multilingual: A person who speaks more than two languages, but used often for four languages or more (3% of world population speak more than 4 languages) Polyglot: Someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages (less than 1‰ of world population speak 5 languages fluently)"

Of course you are Europeans. It's not European in terms of categorizing languages into language groups. Nothing wrong with speaking a non Indo-European language. Hungarians, Finns and Estonians do that too :) And they're all Europeans, no doubt in that.

@Torilla tavataan It's not, it's Uralic.

Not indo-european. Finno-ugric languaged are beautiful.

No, it's simply because I am Eastern European (Russian), and the accent might also come due to that. It's not my native language after all. :)

a lot of loanword

I am a finn and for me it sounds mixture of finnish and scandinavian languages. I can understand some of this languafe even I never learned it. It has many same or similar words that finnish has. This is becouse they use to be same language long ago.

Ra Ra yes, around year 0 the finno-samic language diveded into finnish, vepsian, karelian and saami

She is not a native speaker, she is Russian and learned it in Oslo. She may have interference from L2 Norwegian phonology. I really wish Wikitongues didn't exemplify languages using non-native speakers but oh well...

Many Sami speakers in Scandinavia have some influence from the Scandinavian languages, even the native speakers.

I'm Russian :)

Seriously? I've been told I look like many different nationalities, but it's the first time someone says I look Mexican! Funny :)

Definitely a George Soros funded bot Why ?because of the colour of her hair ,and because of the colour of her yes?That is a stereotype.And no, she doesnt look like Mexican girls.Her face is quite Russian/Slavic.

@@lashforbates ты не похожа на русскую)) сделай днк тест

@@usrainagowno Хахах спасибо за совет.

Jason Lund because they are all Uralic languages

kaydan milne there are ways to get around this :) you are welcome to learn any of the other closely related finno-ugric languages spoken by people not considered as indigenous. If you do that you dont have to be afraid to appropriate (cos we dont care about stuff like that, rather, we dont want our languages to die so its only good), but you could still be able to understand alot of saami ;)

grusplan Thank you!

I'm Finnish, but as far as I've heard the Sami seem to be happy if someone genuinly wants to learn about their culture instead of just stealing their dresses to use them on Halloween... So it shouldn't be a problem unless you pretend to be a Sami person when you are not :) I'm studying Northern Sami too.

What a nauseating sentiment. People would rather be politically correct than do all they can to save a language from being forgotten, or access and understand another culture through its most intimate conduit, its speech. "Cultural appropriation" as a concept is a devious poison to ensure that outsiders are nothing more than sycophantic well-wishers who would prefer a language to die to offending people who demographically and academically don't have the means or even the will to preserve it. Excuse my harsh tone but to mix such an ugly modern white guilt opiate contraption as social justice with the purity of the pursuit of linguistic investigation really makes my blood boil.

@@ajoajoajoaj When it comes to minority/Indigenous communities, only people from the community can save their community's language, and some people aren't comfortable with outsiders learning their language. No means no. Respect people's feelings about their ancestral languages

Haha, cool, I've never heard about selkies before.

lashforbates Selkie's legends are really interesting, especially since they're fact based (wikipedia will tell you all about it)

Selkie's a Scots name; you have this legend in Wales too?

Gareth MacColl Oh I am not Welsh myself but two welsh elderly have told me all about it, and I then went on wikipedia to read about it - is it actually a Scottish legend? 😮 I know of the scottish Kelpie's legend which seem to have emmerged from the same vocabulary type

Amnesium Oh okay. :) Well I don't know if you could say it's specifically a Scottish legend as I'm sure with these types of things there are often similar themes to be found within other cultures, but the selkie legend is certainly found in Scottish folklore and the name 'selkie' is a Scots word. Aye you're right about 'kelpie' - it's also Scots - but I've heard tell it's a borrowing from Gàidhlig. I don't know if that's true but it certainly wouldn't be unusual: being linguistic neighbours for so long, there has been a great deal of borrowing from one to the other (in both directions).

I´m Russian, not Polish...

lashforbates Same thing :)

Not really

+Ziemomysł wtf

blyat cyka slavic same shit

I do mention in the beginning of the video that I'm not a native speaker. I don't really see a problem in that. There are other videos of non-native speakers on this channel as well.

I did not say it's a major "problem", I am just implying in case people want to hear what a native northern Sami speaker sounds like, it's obviously not ideal to use a non-native speaker with a heavy accent.

Mari, you surely must be a native speaker if you noticed my heavy accent. Why don't you record a video of yourself speaking Northern Sami? This is a public project and everyone is welcome to contribute. My friends asked me to record this video because no other speakers volunteered to do that. I have myself recorded videos of other NATIVE Sami speakers on this channel. What's your contribution? Just comments?

I think it's better not to contribute rather than misleading people. Also, no need for snarky comments. :)

I'm a native speaker and she speaks Northern Saami as well as any native speaker.

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@@Debre. Ingles siempre

and...?

there's nothing wrong with that. her degree of fluency is impressive and for someone to learn an indigenous language and learn about the culture that comes with it is a feat in itself

It's meant to be native speakers

You must be new to this channel.

There was an earlier video of a man speaking in an accent of English that died a little over a century ago iirc, but he had learned it from the sparse records that exist of it. I doubt he was native.

She is trying

Try to speak on camera without a script. I was also sick, I don't know if it's noticable, but I had fever and sore throat. Wanna make a better video? ;)

Why are people so mean?! Try you first to learn a difficult languages, probably you speak only one and troll around KZfaq.