I need to make it a personal tradition to eat _”báistebiđus”,_ on February the 6th, every year. Happy Sámi Days, past and pending. Love from Finland 🇫🇮. ❤
@@sebastianoberg5036 I need to make it a personal tradition to eat _”báistebiđus”,_ on February the 6th, every year. Happy Sámi Days, past and pending. Love from Finland 🇫🇮. ❤
It is actually kind of creepy how much of the song I could understand while not being familiar with sami people's language. I am originally from northern Finland but was never really aware that this is definitely a part of history I should learn!
@@rupsikas1950 lol, finnish is still the closest official language to sami, ofcourse they are not the same but it is the closest you get. mana dearvan!
@@polarwhale4895 I mean, there isn't even one "Sami language", there are multiple, so to each Sami language there is another Sami language that is the closest. Yes, the Finnic languages are the next closest thing to the Sami languages, so it could be any one of them, whether it be Finnish, Kven, Meänkieli, Karelian, Estonian etc, for all I know, Veps is the most conservative Finnic language so there's probably a big chance of that actually being the closest.
I can actually notice quite a few (possible) cognates with Estonian (not sure if all are correct though): jávri - järv - lake jogat - jõed - rivers (interesting that the letter t/d at the end still indicates a plural word in both languages. meraide - meri - sea dálvit - talv - winter Sámisohka - Saami sugu - Sami kin miella - meel - mind mátkálažžii - matkajale - (for the) traveller (not sure) meahcci - mets - forest (interestingly, this is not a Finnic word, it’s origianally from the Baltic languages (in Latvian it’s “meža” I believe). I wonder how it got up to even Sápmi. sitkes - sitke - tough viellja - veli - brother varra - veri - blood possibly missed some
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I agree. If I had the power to do so, I would immediately give Sápmi the independence it deserves. *_Sámieatnan sámiide!_* 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟩🟨🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟩🟨🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
@Emeralds11 So you should be. Sámi culture and language are very beautiful, and, together with Sámi heritage, they are *_VERY_* worth of holding onto. There’s much too few indigenous peoples left in the world, who remain so beautifully in touch with nature and their ancient traditions and ways of life. Don’t give that up, proud and noble Sámi kin =D. Love from Finland. ❤️
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@@pihlajafox Exactly. A polytheistic, animistic religion that Christian churches tried to destroy, just like they tried to destroy all other polytheisms before them. The Christian churches were intimately involved in the genocide against the Sámi.
As a Norwegian, I apologise for my country's former treatment of the Sami poeple. I hope your situation will become better and maybe the Sami people can get a free state.
If the situation improves and if they can have an autonomy that can help their culture, an other national state is useless, Norway could even become a more federal system, and it would proove wrong the nation state
We the sami people are fortunate to only be treated as we were. Compare to other indigenous people in the world or any other minorities like Armenians, Kurds or blacks and it immediately becomes appearant that supression of language and culture for a period of roughly 200 years is pretty mild. It has left scars and even sowed mistrust, but in the end as a sami person i can not hold hatred in my heart towards norwegians for this. You have formally apologized, and done a lot to make amends. Norway is both the country of Norwegians and also the Sami people, that we share peacefully together. Never in my fairly short life have i ever recieved anything but love, curiosity and encouragement for my ethnicity, and the bad times are firmly behind us.
Don't apologise for something your ancestors did, that just a silly thing to do. I'm American, but I don't apologise to my African-American friends because of slavery, that's just asinine.
What a beautiful anthem. Though it is sad to know what these people had to go through to live their peaceful and non-abtrusive to foreigners lives. Massacres by the vikings, heavy taxation by norwegians, swedes, finns and russians. Assimilated to reinforce swedish claims. Forceful attempts to make saamies adhere to christianity, to prove that they can speak norwegian and get a tract of land, to go to a school or be able to access basic services and goods. Rounded up in Kolkhozes, their former lands colonised by russian and other ethnicities of the USSR. Denied trading paths and rights. The voices of the Saamis that have rejected and suffured foreign attempts to be controlled and exploited can be heard throughout all of Scandinavia and the Kola peninseula... Sámieatnan sámiide!
Their relationship Ancinet Norsemen or Scandinavians seems to have been mixed even if we do not have alot of sources, evidence of trade is clear as is loan Words and also of interaction and even intermarriage. That said some hostility may have happened more or less. But from what I know the extreme oppression came later and intensified when when the Scandinavian countries expanded into the most northen parts of Fenno-Scandinavia. We have evidence of Sami populations in places like Ångermanland, but they have since assimilated into the Scandinavian Swedish speaking culture of that area. A small word list we find of them suggest they most likely spoke a language closely related to South Sami. But sadly our sources are limited and the history and pre-history of Fenno-Scandinavia is very complex, the more we learn the more complex we see that things are. For an example ancinet Finland based on place names, substrate words in Finnish and other things seems to have had a great linguistic diversity of Sami languages or relatives to them, an Indo-European language in Southern Finland that may be the root the word Suomi and pre-uralic and pre-Indo-European languages here and there. Why did the early Finnic speakers become dominante and assimilate all the others? We do not know. As it seems what would become Finnish spread quite late in Finland, from the area of what is know Sankt-Petersburg, Estonia and the like. Alot of question about the ancinet North.
You left out the forced sterilization =( I can't find any information on it, but was told that it was the reason my family immigrated to America in the 30's-40's.
Dylan Mathews in finland its called ”norjalaistamiskaudet” or ”the eras of norwegianizing” (starting from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s) where the kainuu/kven and sami people were forced to abandon their cultures and go into boarding schools to learn how to be ”real norwegians” (starting from 1895, speaking Norwegian was an requirement to be Norwegian), kven and sami kids would be humiliated and hit if they were heard speaking their finno-ugric languages and as you said alot of people were sterilized due to being looked as ”insane”, many kvens and sami people had to change their last names to a more norwegian sound so they could own land but later on just having a norwegian name wouldnt be enough and you had to be of norwegian blood to own land, interesting part of history of the finno-ugrics of the Finnmark was that the Laestadians had huge influence on the Sami and Kven people and caused the Sami to riot against their oppressors in the riots of Guovdageaidnu, Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby were sentenced to death for starting the riot where two people were killed and a whole lot of people were tied up and then beat
@@0mgskillz96 Thank you for taking the time to write up this informative post. I've noticed that this is eerily similar to the indigenous schools that Canada had set up around the same time. Giitu!
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Yes. Usually, it’s all about black people, Native Americans, Kurds, and Rohingyas. Not that I have anything against recognizing the bullying of indigenous peoples; but why not include the Sámi people; and the Greenlandic Inuit, and the First Nations in Canada, for that matter? 🤔
@volklied OK. I’m pretty sure Nords (if they even were a distinct people group, by that point) lived around central Europe, 10 000 years ago. If they even lived in Europe, at all. In fact; historical linguistics tells us that the Indo-European languages only started diverging around 6000 years ago. Meaning that 10 000 years ago, Nords were basically the same people as Greeks, Persians, and Indians. So, something in your story doesn’t add up. The Sámi, as a distinct people group, started to emerge by that time (3500 years ago), true. But, as far as we know, Indo-Europeans (including Nords (or, their ancestors, really)) are thought to have lived just North of the Black Sea, 6000 years ago. So, how does that fit together with your claim 🤔? Though, I shouldn’t be surprised. Judging by your profile picture, you probably believe in Swedish supremacy.
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Sama. Jotkut sijamuodot ja -päätteet ovat myös identtisiä suomen kielen kanssa. _”Sámisohka _*_sieluin mielain”._* Luulisin suomen ja saamelaiskielten olevan kutakuinkin yhtä läheistä sukua toisilleen, kuin vaikkapa kreikka ja romaaniset kielet toisilleen; ja, koska uralilaiset kielet ovat varsin vanhakantaisia, ovat monet piirteet säilyneet muuttumattomina hyvin pitkiä aikoja; kuten vaikkapa omannon (genetiivin) sijapääte kantauralissa oli: ”-n”; aivan, kuten nykysuomessakin; ja kohdannon (akkusatiivin) sijapääte oli kantauralissa: ”-m”, joka muuttui nykysuomeen tultaessa ”-n”:ksi, mikä on melko pieni muutos 6 000-10 000 vuodessa. Sen takia suomen kohdanto (akkusatiivi) useimmissa tapauksissa näyttää omannolta (genetiiviltä), mutta kyseessä on kuitenkin eri sija; toisin, kuin mitä yläasteella opetettiin. 🤔
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As a Norwegian myself I would also like to apologize for or former treatment of the Sami people. But I don’t think the Sami people will get and autonomous state unfortunately. The reason for this is because in the Norwegian part of sapmi there also lives a lot of Norwegians in the area and in Norway only about 30000 speak Sami and most of then speak north Sami. Also the Sami aren’t just some guys hunting reindeer in fact only about 10 prosent of the Sami people bread reindeer. And alot of Sami also live in big Norwegian city’s sutch as Oslo. Anyways the Sami people have a beautiful anthem and I hope their culture and language lives on forever. Love from Norway 🇳🇴
@@mariasirona1622 Indeed, it is. Well, not a whole (top level) language family (that would be the Uralic language family); more like a language branch. Though, I’ve seen even serious linguists (like Joshua Rudder (of the channel: ”NativLang”; and the author of the book: ”The Grammar of Romance”) refer to, say, the Romance languages, as a ”language family”. 🤔
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@@atu6214 The closest surviving thing to an Ugric alphabet is probably the _”Rovásírás”,_ which truly are *_UGRIC_* alphabet, since they’re basically the Hungarian ”runes”. However, they’re based on the ”Orkhon”-script of the old Turkic language. Though; I have developed my own alphabet, called: ”Krásnịca”, which is not based on any other alphabet or script. In it, the letters are designed according to their phonetic features (kind of like ”Hangul”; which I wasn’t thinking of, when developing ”Krásnịca”; and wasn’t even aware of, when I first came up with this idea; and, unlike ”Hangul”, ”Krásnịca” doesn’t use weird depictions of trees (that don’t even look like trees), for vowels. Like, what do trees have to do with vowel pronunciation? Acrophony, maybe? 🤔); and it’s very versatile, and can be adapted to fit various, wildly different languages. Even some click-sounds are representable, in ”Krásnịca”. Basically, the consonants are squares (being more ”angular” sounds), vowels are circles (as they are more ”round”, sound-wise), and different flags and markings are used to distinguish individual letters from each other. Generally, on the left, are back-of-the-mouth -sounds, like velar and glottal consonants, and back vowels (imagine a head facing right, which, I think is the default position for Westerners; so, the ”back” would be on the left, and the ”front” would be on the right); at the horizontal center, are central sounds, like alveolar consonants and central vowels; and on the right, are front-of-the-mouth -sounds, like bilabial consonants and front vowels. Regarding consonants, at the top, are voiceless sounds, like voiceless plosives, sibilants, spirants, etc.; at the vertical center, are voiced plosives, many voiced fricatives, etc.; and, at the bottom, are nasals, voiced sibilants, etc. Regarding vowels, at the top, are open vowels; at the vertical center, are mid-vowels; and, at the bottom, are closed vowels. Typically, a dot represents a strong sound, while a ring represents a weaker sound, and a dot within a ring usually represents an extra-strong sound. Lines often represent sonorants and continuous consonants (not plosives) that one can easily extend in time, like ”L” and ”R”, and a zig-zag represents a trill, like in ”R”, which, in the Uralic languages, would mostly be a voiced alveolar trill; thus, marked with a square with a vertical zig-zag bisecting it, at the horizontal center. Laterals (like ”L”) are marked with a straight line (”L” is literally just a square that’s bisected by a vertical, straight line, at the horizontal center). ”Polyphonemic” sounds (sounds that change their quality, from beginning to end, like affricates), and intermediate sounds (sounds that have features from two or more basic sounds), are marked with combination letters. For example, ”X” is just a square, combining the top-left dot of ”K” and the upper horizontal bar of ”S”; and ”Ẃ”, representing a voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ], in Krasnian _(”Krásnjian Kieli”,_ in Krasnian), a Finnic language I’ve ”developed”, like, 99,7% naturally; is just a square, combining the top-right dot of ”P” and the top-left ring of ”H”; so: ”PH”. So, it’s pretty straight-forward, once you get the hang of it; I should think. 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟥🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
If the Northwestern region of Russia will ever become independent then we‘d see a Greater Scandinavia: Sami Republic of Kola(ndia), Republic of Karelia, Republic of Ingria.
No, I'm not Sámi, but my partner is, and as far as I understand, there's little to no interest among Sámi people in having their own state. They don't want or need it. A state means running a government, a police force, an army, whatever else, and they just...don't see any reason to do that. They just wanna herd reindeer in peace. Instead what they want is recognition and the right to live and practice their culture freely on their own land. They want to be able to herd over the four countries and take their reindeer across the borders with no restrictions. They want no restrictions on how big their reindeer herds can be. They want rights to decide the fate of their own land- to be able to say "no" to having mines and oil pipelines and bombing ranges on their herding sites. They don't want cheap copies of their culture and crafts being made to sell to tourists. Things like that really. But they want to do this in peaceful coexistence as part of the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian states. So still part of those countries, just with rights to their land and freedom to do their own thing on it.
(Speaking as a norwegian speaking sami) I'd stay in Norway, we are one country built on the land of to peoples, and dividing us isn't viable. We are also only about 30000-50000 samis, and most of us don't even speak the language anymore. Also, most samis have both norwegian and sami family
I'm not Sámi, but my partner is, and as far as I understand, there's little to no interest among Sámi people in having their own state. They don't want or need it. A state means running a government, a police force, an army, whatever else, and they just...don't see any reason to do that. They just wanna herd their reindeer in peace. Instead what they want is recognition and the right to live and practice their culture freely on their own land. They want to be able to herd reindeer over the four countries with no restriction. They want rights on their own land- to be able to say "no" to having mines and oil pipelines and bombing ranges on their herding sites. They don't want cheap copies of their culture and crafts being made to sell to tourists. Things like that really. But they want to do this in peaceful coexistence as part of the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian states. So still there, just with rights to their land and freedom to do their own thing. Oh, and don't use "Lapland" to refer to the Sámi lands. Use "Sápmi" or "Saapmi" instead.
It is. It’s my favourite flag of a recognized people group. The colours are vibrant, and allude to the _gákti_ (the Sámi national outfit); and they even represent the same things, as the same colours in the flag of Krasnia (a micronation I’ve founded), which I designed (coincidentally; as in, I designed the basic format of the flag, before I’d even heard of the Sámi people; although I *_AM_* Finnish): 🟩 = Nature 🟥 = Fire 🟦 = Water 🟨 = Sun(light)
If it were the will of the Sámi people, then I would support separatism (I mean, they are the original inhabitants of these lands; and so, they own these lands, and they have the right to decide, whether they want independence, or not; in my book); but, apparently, it is not. 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
The cultures are very distinct, and the language are from two completely different language trees. Still of course no reason for discrimination, but culturally just as different as anglos and Native Americans
@@david82633 The warmer climate will open up exploitation opportunities in the arctic which will make russia, USA and china try to get control over it which will one way or another get the nordic countries involved. Either we get occupied or puppeted by russia or USA or we form a union, there's no other alternative.
This is a terrible anthem because it does not include joiking. Seriously, the sami have an unique singing tradition and they _don't_ have it in their literal ANTHEM!?
Yes, that is kind of weird. But I think it’s probably because they want to have actual lyrics in their anthem. Also, Finland doesn’t have _runonlaulanta_ in our anthem (instead, we have a tune composed by a German guy, making our so-called ”National Anthem” more like a generic *_EUROPEAN_* music piece, which is a huge disservice to the Finnish Nationalism, in my opinion; plus, the lyrics are kind of boring, and don’t really express Nationalism or patriotism, if you ask me. The same goes for our flag, which is just a rip-off of the Swedish and Danish flags, the flags of our biggest oppressors; and the Nordic cross alludes to Christianity, which I’m also not a fan of, as it was forced upon us by the Swedish imperialists, to replace our *_OWN, INDIGENOUS, FINNISH_* culture, which was trampled to all but oblivion and demonized the hell out of by the Swedish Christians; but, as a Finnish Pagan and a Turanist, I choose to interpret our flag as representing Väinämöinen’s cap; and it even goes for our coat-of-arms, which, again, is a rip-off of the Swedish oppressors and exploiters, which has *_NOTHING_* to do with Finland (lion is not a Finnish animal; and a sword is not a Finnish weapon, it’s a generic weapon). The only thing that *_COULD_* allude to *_ANYTHING_* Finnish, is the number of rosettes (9), for the 9 historical regions of Finland: Lapland, Ostrobothnia, Savonia, Karelia, Satakunta, Tavastia, Uusimaa, Finland Proper, and Ahvenanmaa (Åland); but, *_OF COURSE,_* the Government has left that part blank 😒. I mean, do they actively *_HATE_* our country, because they seem to *_DELIBERATELY AVOID ANY_* Nationalist symbolism? Like, what’s the point of even having a National Anthem and a flag and a coat-of-arms, if you’re not allowed or don’t allow yourself to display any Nationalist imagery? 🤯), and the Mongolian National Anthem doesn’t include throat singing. 🇫🇮🇲🇳 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟦🟥🟩🟨🟦🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟦🟦🟥🟥🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
As far as I know, most sami don't really want our own nation. We just want our rights respected and what is left of our culture preserved. We just want to live as we are without fear. Would having our own nation be nice? Yes, but not at the cost of splitting up countries today
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