Abstract
Sami Texts From Kemi Sápmi Recorded by Jenny and Samuli Paulaharju
Highlights
Among the folklore texts collected by Jenny and Samuli Paulaharju in the 1920s and 1930s there are a few Sami texts from the area of Kittilä and Sodankylä
Three Sami languages are nowadays spoken in Finland: North Sami, belonging to the Western group, Skolt Sami, and the endemic Sami language of Finland, Inari Sami, both belonging to the Eastern group
Sirma’s translation of Johannes Gezelius’s Catechism from Finnish2 and a short glossary compiled by Jacob Fellman during the 1820s3 show the differences between dialects from Nuortti/Nuortijärvi (Skolt Sami), Imandra (Skolt Sami), Kuolajärvi (Kemi Sami), Sompio (Kemi Sami), Inari (Inari Sami), Enontekiö (North Sami) and Utsjoki (North Sami), as well as the dialect continuum between Kemi Sami and the bordering Sami languages (Skolt, Inari, and perhaps North Sami as well)
Summary
Among the folklore texts collected by Jenny and Samuli Paulaharju in the 1920s and 1930s there are a few Sami texts from the area of Kittilä and Sodankylä. Another text in Kemi Sami is a translation of the Lord’s Prayer in the dialect of Sompio recorded by Anders Johan Sjögren and published in 1828 in his Anteckningar om
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