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A North Saami to South Saami Machine Translation Prototype

Northern European Journal of Language Technology, 2016
The paper describes a rule-based machine translation (MT) system from North to South Saami. The system is designed for a workflow where North Saami functions as pivot language in translation from Norwegian or Swedish. We envisage manual translation from Norwegian or Swedish to North Saami, and thereafter MT to South Saami.
Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Francis M. Tyers   +2 more
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Working Together with South Saami Birth Stories – A Collaboration Between a Saami Midwife and a Saami Researcher

Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2017
  This paper presents some results from a community-based project among local South Saami in the Norwegian and Swedish part of Saepmie. I was co-coordinating a two-year community-sponsored project in the community (Røyrvik) in which a local South Saami midwife documented stories from elder Saami about childbirth in earlier times, both from their own ...
Åsa Virdi Kroik, Jonhild Joma
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South Saami

, 2022
Abstract South Saami, an indigenous language spoken in the central regions of Norway and Sweden, is the westernmost variety of the westernmost (Saami) branch of the Uralic language family. Despite its long history in the immediate neighbourhood of Scandinavian languages, many of the core features of South Saami stand out as constituting ...
Ylikoski Jussi, Ylikoski Jussi
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Language teacher identity and language acquisition in a South Saami preschool: A narrative inquiry

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
This paper explores language teacher identity (LTI) among three preschool teachers. The focus lies on the preschool teachers’ identities as linguistic role models by means of analysing their own descriptions of language learning, that is, their personal experiences of and reflections on language acquisition. Three interviews were made with different in-
David Kroik
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Predicative possession in South Saami

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2019
In this paper, we analyse and describe the HAVE-constructions in South Saami (Saamic, Uralic), from a comparative perspective with other Saamic and Uralic languages. The Saamic languages can be divided into three subgroups: in the first, HAVE is expressed with a verb meaning ‘to be’; the second has a HAVE-construction based on a verb ‘to have’ and one ...
Inaba Nobufumi, Blokland Rogier
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Experiencing the magic? The Saami turf hut as a cradle of stories, myths, and learning: South Saami traditional knowledge in teacher education

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2022
In this article, we present the background and process of the building of a traditional South Saami derhvie-gåetie (turf hut) on Nord University’s campus in Levanger, Norway. The turf hut project is linked to the university’s teacher education programs in which traditional Saami knowledge is part of the curriculum.
Asbjørn Kolberg, Leiv Sem
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Puncturing Parts of History’s Blindness: South Saami and South Saami Culture in Early Picture Postcards [PDF]

, 2019
In this chapter, I discuss early picture postcards of South Saami and South Saami culture from approximately 1880–1950. The point of departure is Tromso University Museum’s collection of more than 3800 postcards with Saami motives as well as the postcard exhibition ‘With an eye for the Sami’ at Perspektivet Museum in the same city.
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South Saami Cultural Landscape Under Pressure [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter will analyse the debate over the use and management of the South Saami cultural landscape where the construction of a large number of windmills in South Saami land has drawn the front line between the reindeer herders and commercial interests.
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Håkon Hermanstrand, Asbjørn Kolberg, Trond Risto Nilssen and Leiv Sem (eds.), The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami: Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority within a Minority (Cham: Springer, 2019)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum
Book review of "The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami: Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority within a Minority"
Ilona Kater
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The Indigenous Voice in Majority Media. South Saami Representations in Norwegian Regional Press 1880–1990 [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter presents a survey of how South Saami people and Saami matters are represented in Mid-Norwegian regional newspapers from around 1880 to 1990. Papers published in Steinkjer, the regional capital of Nord-Trøndelag County, constitute the bulk of the material. To what extent and how are Saami matters represented in the newspapers?
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