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Northern Saami resources

Postby Chung » Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:39 am

This list will be updated periodically as new resources emerge. For a summary of the language oriented for prospective learners including comments on learning material, please seeProposed Saamic profile”.

DESIGNATED LEARNING MATERIAL

Courses
- “Cealkke dearvvuođaid” series: Vols. 1-6
- “Davvin” series: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4
- Links to online courses of Northern Saami and Southern Saami. E-skuvla.no offers online courses (for a fee) for Northern Saami and Southern Saami while Folkeuniversitetet Nettstudier offers ones for Northern Saami, including “Davvin” (4 parts) as a correspondence/distance-learning course
- Lohkan (simple site meant for Norwegian children to learn Northern Saami)
- Online course in four parts hosted by Oahpa! which is affiliated with “Sámi giellatekno” 1) dialogues or passages for total beginners that demonstrate grammar in use (SAM-1031), 2) listening and oral module (SAM-1034), 3) reading and writing module (SAM-1035), 4) course for advanced beginners (SAM-1036). All material uses Norwegian as the intermediary language

Grammar
- Short guide to Northern Saami grammar for English-speakers
- Grammatical sketch of North Saami
- North Sámi: An Essential Grammar

Reference material
- Sámi-suoma-sámi sátnegirji (Pekka Sammallahti's Northern Saami-Finnish/Finnish-Northern Saami dictionary - 7th printing issued in 2020)
- Freelang’s online English-Northern Saami/Northern Saami-English dictionary as presumably compiled by Renato B. Figueiredo (likely based on Kimberli Mäkäräinen’s online Northern-Saami/English dictionary (q.v.))
- Kimberli Mäkäräinen’s online Northern Saami-English dictionary and short list of adjectives showing attributive and predicative forms
- Site “Sámi giellatekno”or Saami language-technology which includes Oahpa’s games and exercises for learners, online dictionaries between Saamic languages and English, Norwegian, Russian or Swedish, an inflectional paradigm generator and a short online grammar reference manual of Northern Saami for English-speakers
- Online phrasebook “Say it in Saami” with recordings of words and phrases in Northern Saami, Inari Saami and Skolt Saami

Corpora
- Interactive corpus (bilingual Norwegian and Northern Saami)

Testing
N/A

AUDIO-VISUALS

Video
- Mánáid TV (Streamed television show for children in Northern Saami on Norsk rikskringkasting AS (Norwegian Broadcasting Company). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Norway)
- NRK Sápmi (Streamed programs in Saamic languages on Norsk rikskringkasting AS (Norwegian Broadcasting Company). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Norway)
- SVT Sápmi (Streamed programs in Saamic languages on Sveriges Television (Swedish national television broadcaster). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Sweden)
- Ođđasat (Sweden) (Streamed TV broadcasts of the news program “Ođđasat” in Northern Saami with Swedish subtitles on Sveriges Television (Swedish national television broadcaster). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Sweden)
- YLE Sápmi (Streamed programs in Saamic languages on Yleisradio (Finnish national broadcasting company). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Finland)
- Streamable shows in Saamic languages from YLE Sápmi. (N.B. Shows are usually offered with Finnish subtitles (hard-coded or toggleable on the bottom right of the viewer in the speech bubble with “tekstitys”) but may be available only to IP addresses in Finland or for a limited time with older episodes/broadcasts being regularly replaced by newer ones)

Cinema
- Giehka (The Cuckoo)
- Ofelaš (Pathfinder)
- Guovdageainnu stuimmit (Kautokeino Rebellion)

N.B. Available DVDs may not play properly outside Europe because of region restrictions or PAL encoding

Podcasts
- Gáfestallan Lisain

Radio
- Sameradion (Streamed radio broadcasts in Northern Saami on Sveriges Radio (Swedish national radio broadcaster). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Sweden)
- YLE Sámi Radio (Streamed radio broadcasts in Northern Saami on YLE (Finnish national broadcaster). N.B. Some content may be available only to IP addresses in Finland)

Audiobooks
N/A

Pronunciation/Listening
N/A

READING

Newspapers
N/A

Literature
- Collection of short literary works. Recordings in .mp3 and/or comprehension exercises accompany some works
- Sáhpánat ja olbmot (Parallel text of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" in Northern Saami and Norwegian as used in a production by the theatrical troupe, Beaivváš Sámi Nášunálateáhter)
- Site “Sámi fágagirjjálaš čálliid- ja jorgaleaddjiidsearvi” or Sami Non-Fiction Writers' and Translators' Association with links to online texts and magazines.

Forums
N/A

Comics
N/A

OTHER

- Site on Saami school history which includes texts on the history of education for the Saami in Northern Saami, Norwegian or English and can be arranged as parallel texts by opening separate browser windows using different languages
- Saamic language profile (static version at http://www.language-learners.org)

LISTS OF LINKS

- List of learning materials purchasable through the Saami Parliament of Finland
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