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SCANNING THE MEDIA – PART 1 Listen to the people who have grown up immersed in their Saami culture. More often then not, they’re elders. You have to listen to languages. It’s better to listen to how the elders in your area express things, than trying to translate things word by word. I’m always finding myself in situations where I think, oh, that’s another way to express it. Even though I’ve been immersed in the language for so long, I’m still learning. A language can be compared to a life, both have strict borders and endless possibilities.
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Mov lea voelpe daesnie Johkemehkesne. Gosse manne diekie juhtim dle satne jïjnjem saemiesti munnjan. Jïh manne die domtim ‘wow! gåerede amma saemiestidh jeatja almetjigujmie enn dah gïeh mov slïektesne.’ Guarkajim maam satne jeehti bene aalkovistie idtjim sïjhth dan jïjnjem jiehtedh saemien gïelesne. Bene satne jis jeehtie ‘Jis sïjhth mannine soptsestalledh dle tjoerh saemiestidh!’ Manne ajve, okay, åh! Jïh dle eelkim saemiestidh.
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— Pekka Sammalahti, Nuorat (03.2011) The Swedish government’s treatment of its own indigenous people is a joke, and I stopped laughing 25 years ago. But it would be easy to blame others and think that it would solve everything. Change has to happen, and I will start by changing myself.
— Naina Helén Jåma Wigdahl, Nuorat
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(01.2015)
Ben Yehuda initiated a remarkable revitalisation process and after 50 years of hard work, Hebrew had once again become a living language, after having been dormant for nearly 2000 years. What does this teach us? Well, it teaches us that as long as you have the will to save a language, it can be done, even if it is on the brink of extinction. Furthermore, our Saami languages are in a much better position than Hebrew was [when Yehuda started revitalising it] some 200 years ago. This tells us that if we really want to, we can make Saami the first language of thousands if not millions of people.”
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— Pávva Pittja, Nuorat (01.2015)
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Eat mii leat vuolláneame. Mii leat luvveme iehčamet ja gávdname min iežamet sámi sielu. — Tobias Poggats, Nuorat (01. 2015) Dahta mierij, dat la degu ilmmenuoske-dimij, e vuojnnu, valla hapsijdi ja vájkudi mijáv ihkeve ålov, degu dálla ja guhkkásit.
— Staffan Palopää, Samefolket, 11/2001
— Pia Sjögren, Nuorat (04.2014)
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