Sami, any member of a people speaking the Sami language and inhabiting Lapland and adjacent areas of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as the Kola Peninsula of Russia, a region they call Sápmi.
Traditional Sami occupations are hunting, fishing, farming, and reindeer herding, though only a minority of today's Sami make a living from these activities alone, and virtually none live in a natural economy nor have a nomadic lifestyle.
They are Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. Sami ancestral lands are not well-defined.
The Sami are the Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, with deep roots across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. In Norway, Sami traditions remain a living part of daily life from the coast of Troms and Finnmark to the mountains of Trøndelag and the forests near Røros.
There are ten Sami dialects, Northern Sami being the largest; is spoken in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The other dialects, however, have only a few hundred speakers each, and are thus highly threatened.
The Sami are the only recognized group of indigenous people in Europe. The live in Sápmi, the northern-most region of Fennoscandia, covering parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninnsula of Russia . The Sami Language(s) belong to the Finno-Uralic Language Family.
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