Sofia Jannok - Irene (Official Video) 

Same! Hello from the future! Holy heck my heart is happy.

Usually the Saamis back home would say, you either are a Saami or you're not, theres no being a part Saami. And that is only meant in a very deep , profund way, not in a nasty mean sort of way. :)

me as well. I’m part sámi and my family came to America and basically left their heritage behind them due to discrimination. I’m glad I’m not alone.

my mother was saami and my grandparents also

i voting in saami parlament too

I just discovered my ancestors are Sammi and I am more Sammi than anyone in my family without knowing it. I'm discovering who I truly am! I am home.

Me too😊

Sameee 🐶

Same

me to 😀

Same💀I was like wtf is that

Imbecile!!!

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Sami isn't Swedish but Sofia speaks Swedish perfectly, being a Swedish Sami woman from what I understand. Swedish has a lot of bouncyness, maybe it is from there.

i think she’s joiking in most of the song. there are some lyrics in the song but it sounds like she’s joiking for most of it. it’s really beautiful

@@unwnme It has nothing to do with Swedish language. Go check "Joiken fra Ante-filmen", which is a well known joik from the Norwegian side of the border. The same yoik is performed by the band Intrigue, Eadni Nieida, in a heavy yoik version.

@@Skottir8an Thank you for this explanation. It is very helpful! :)

@@gregdelaney119 your welcome

@@gregdelaney119 it can of course be mixed with sampmi language as in this song but like the indians the joik is the old part totally without words. Still they are based upon feelings not words.

how things going now😄

Yeah are you fluent now

Thank you!

We are many but scattred and divided. The sad thing is that not many of us qualifies into Sametingets criterias of being sons or daughters of Sápmi. It's like we are outcast from politics from both Sverigedemokraterna and the Sametinget. I'm only 1/16 Sápmi but I still think it is a huge part of my heritage and I full out embraces it.

@@mrSkandalpolisen Make your own Ting. Who are they to tell you you're not sami enough? And I wouldn't say you're unwelcome in Sverigedemokraterna. I can't imagine they would be against having samis in their ranks aslong as they understand the purpose of the party. Mass immigration from outside Europe is their focus. Not sami culture. No one cares if you're sami.

@Lucas Björkén I dont think many modern people have seen the discrimination you talk about. What kind of visual discrimination are the sami experiencing today? Also, its strange you assume he is american when his name is scottish.

Thanks for Jeff I am one left I am hiding from them all how badly they treat us

@@davidbartholomeusz Who treats you badly?

fellow Sami from Norway here❤️💚💛💙

I am also sámi from norway. much love ❤️

Please, do not call Sami people "indians". And as it is, the ones you CAN call Indian are the ones native to India. The indigenous peoples living in what is now called USofA are not indians. But I love that you love this song and Sami people. Regards, Irene

Why are you using ''indian''? They are not from India! Colonial mentality. Please decolonize before using degratory and racist slurs, and inacurate names. The Sami, Fins, and Estonians are distant related to 1st nation/indigenous peoples of America!

thank you for appreciating our culture ❤️

What's cool about these type of indigenous peoples-based songs, is that they really touch deep within the soul. :)

I liked visiting friends in Mexico. You have a wonderful Coulter.

@@jettjojohnson3197 thank you so much

Im Mexican too! This song is so pretty , i heard it a while back and came back after 6 years

Sapmi ä stort sträck sig till Ryssland

I'm curious about your book. How's it going?

make sure anything you make relating to us is accurate and not offensive..

@@annliisajulia7885 Why would my book be offensive ? No reason, really. Then i'm nobody. I write it for me cause i like that and i will probably be my only reader.

Me the same. 😍😀

Sámi isn't really Swedish culture, since the Sámi people are indigenous to Finland, Norway and Sweden. Not only Sweden.

@@pumpsulet sorry i didn't really knew that, but thanks

@@pumpsulet russia too :)

@@pumpsulet It is part of Swedish culture.

@@larspeterson6324 no.

Thanks a lot!

Ikr. Same here.

Muchas gracías!

Trygve Guttormsen this is not Spanish... it is a old language called Sami or Saami

@@thememebuffet9756 I was responding to FELIPE LOPEZ who wrote: Excelente tema y brillante voz!!! mi hija se llama Irene. me gustaria poder tener la traduccion. saludos desde Argentina. I used google translator to find out that he wanted a translation. So I attached the English translation I found together whith the record I bought (Sofia Jannok áššogáttis by the embers) Somehow RU-vid didn't attach my answer to FELIPE LOPEZ's comment. Another thing, RU-vid stopped sending me notifications each time somebody responds to my posts. So I found your comment by chance. I should not have written my comment as if I was an expert on Saami culture, because I'm not. My first language is Norwegian and I barely understand some Northern Saami.

do it!! Sámi culture welcomes you.

indeed it does we wont throw people out for not being saami anyone is welcome !

You are right, that's so better and emotionnal.. 😊

u r soo right..!! wowoo2o2o22wwww but 1.5 is even better.. but frankly i prefer normal speed hhahahahahaha

@@maddogship I see, thanks for explaining!

@@canko15 what did they sayyy? i haave been searching for the lyrics

@@starprincessjolie oh, they deleted the comment. As I recall, the lyrics are almost impossible to translate, because not only Sofia is doing some complicated wordplays, but she's just straight up singing sort of like ritualistic/chamanic formulas, "charms" smh made up of sounds repetitions and tongue twisters IN Sami, so yeah, it would be pointless to translate most of that. What's in the description are the Sami bits that can be translated with some sense in English

@@canko15 WOW thank you so much! The comment was a year old I thought I would have no luck for an answer. Did they mention anywhere where you could find pronunciation at least?

I am sámi from Norway. To others it’s just sounds, to us it’s our ancestors and heritage. Im so glad she loves it ❤️

It's a song/yoik done to modern music. The language is Sámi. :)

Henry K thank you! I’ve been learning more and more about the Sámi culture, something about it fascinates me, especially since I had never heard of them before.

It is a name :) Ántte, Nils, Duommá, Ber and Irene are all names in their own right (Duommá for example is the Sami form of Thomas) and it happens quite often that names are combined, like "Nils-Duommá" :)

She is exclaiming to other herders that a reindeer toom off from the herd*. (forgive the derp*) Ántte. Nils-Duommá Ber-Ántte Irene are all names she is alerting.

¿Habla inglés? :)

@@sanjuro66 no :(

@@talevhope8054 Parlez vous français?

@@sanjuro66 no :'c

@@talevhope8054 Lo siento. Mi español es no lo suficientemente bueno. Pero....Esta idioma es "Sámi". No hay traducción por la mayor parte de la canción. La mayoría es un canto "Joik". Pero una parte es "El reno con una oreja marcado despegó".