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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
Sami people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to wikipedia there's 40 000 sami in Norway, 20 000 in Sweden and 6000 in Finland. Then again one might ponder about samis integrating more readily in Finland because of the similar languages and thus distorting the true influence on the population.
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Well, there is quite a distance between the area of Saamis and the area where over 90% of all Finns live...
As for into which society Saamis would integrate better, linguistically Saami is put into the same family with Baltic Finnic languages, but I personally don't recognize a word of Saami (it sounds beautiful and soft though) while I can understand a bit of Estonian and it sounds far more familiar. I'm no linguist, but I have wondered if Saami language should have a branch of their own in the Finnic language tree...
But then, I'm against integrating, or should I say assimilating the Saamis into any society. They should remain as what they are and be proud of that.