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SAMI [2 records]

Record 1 2023-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

An Indigenous people who live in a region of northern Europe that is mainly situated above the Arctic Circle and that stretches from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland to the Kola Peninsula of Russia.

Key term(s)
  • Sames

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
DEF

Peuple autochtone qui vit dans une région de l'Europe du Nord principalement située au-dessus du cercle arctique et qui s'étend du nord de la Norvège, de la Suède et de la Finlande à la péninsule de Kola en Russie.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family spoken by the Lapps, a Finnic people living in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and adjacent regions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue finno-ougrienne du groupe finnique parlée par les Lapons, groupe ethnique habitant la Laponie, soit trois départements de Norvège, le nord de la Suède et la Laponie finlandaise.

Spanish

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