🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

サーミ人

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sāmi-jin

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sami/ˈsɑːmi/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14200 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"サーミ人は北欧の先住民族です。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia.

    "The Sami have a rich cultural heritage deeply connected to reindeer herding and traditional joik singing."
  2. 2

    The Uralic language spoken by the Sami people, comprising several distinct dialects.

    "Northern Sami is the most widely spoken variety of the language."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the indigenous Uralic endonym 'Sámi' (or 'Sámis'), referring to the people inhabiting Sápmi in northern Fennoscandia. Historically referred to in Germanic languages as 'Lapps', the term Sami has gained widespread international recognition through linguistic and cultural self-determination movements in the 20th century.

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