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Revision as of 12:41, 24 September 2008
== Annotating and Documenting Lule Saami ==
Annotating and documenting Lule Saami is a NTNU pilotstudy using the TypeCraft database. Here we will soon tell you more about which texts we have chosen for linguistic annotation and why, and we will show you examples of our annotations, and tell you why we think it is important to annotate Lule Saami text.
We also would like to tell you about our ideas of community-oriented language documentation, and not least, we would like you to get to know more about the Lule Saami people.
You probably already know that the Saami are an indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and that their territory stretches from the Kola peninsula in northwestern Russia to Engerdal in southern Norway and Idre in southern Sweden. This area is called Sápmi in the Northern Saami language. Traditionally, the Saami have lived by reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and farming, but today, the Saami have both traditional and modern jobs. There are many interesting sites about Saami and the Saami people that you can visit online. Lule Saami online
SAAMI PEOPLE
The Sami are an indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Sami territory stretches from the Kola peninsula in northwestern Russia to Engerdal in southern Norway and Idre in southern Sweden. This area is called Sápmi in the Northern Sami language. The Sami languages are a part of the Finno-Ugric language family (along with Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian). Traditionally, the Sami have lived by reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and farming. Today, the Sami have both traditional and modern jobs.
Lule Saami utfyllende tekst kommer snart
Det lulesamiske bosettingsområdet i Norge ligger i Nordland fylke, og strekker seg fra området rundt Saltenfjorden i sør til Ballangen kommune i nord.
Den lulesamiske bosettingen er mest konsentrert i Nord-Salten-regionen. Tysfjord er den kommunen som har flest samiske innbyggere.
På svensk side ligger det lulesamiske bosettingsområdet mellom Pite-elv i sør og Kaitum-elv i nord. Bosettingen har sin hovedtyngde i Jokkmokk og Gällivare, og i nordre del av Arjeplog kommune.