* 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

# Akkala Sami: Marja Sergina ( 2003 )

The Sami languages closest to Kildin are Ter Sami and Akkala Sami.

Akkala Sami is a Sami language that was spoken in the Sami villages of A ´ kkel and Ču ´ kksuâl, in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

Akkala Sami is the most endangered eastern Sami language.

On December 29, 2003, Marja Sergina – one of the last fluent native speakers of Akkala Sami – died.

However, there are at least two people, both aged 70, with some knowledge of Akkala Sami.

Although there exist a description of Akkala Sami phonology and morphology, a few published texts, and archived audio recordings, the Akkala Sami language remains among the most poorly documented Sami languages.

In addition to the ethnic Swedish majority, Sweden has historically had smaller minorities of Sami people in the northernmost parts of the country while Finns ( at 5 % of the total population ) are most prominent in the Mälardalen and in the north of Sweden.

How far south the Sami extended in the past has been debated among historians and archeologists for many years.

Fishing has always been the main livelihood for the many Sami living permanently in seaside areas.

The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree.

However, the autonomous province of Åland has a directly elected regional council, and the Sami people have a semi-autonomous Sami Domicile Area in Lapland for issues on language and culture.

Sif has been linked with Ravdna, the consort of the Sami thunder-god Horagalles.

About 1705 Sami Warren built what has become known as the Downingtown Log House.

Sami language has an official minority language status in Arjeplog, Gällivare, Jokkmokk, and Kiruna municipalities.

A large part of the area has been the habitat of reindeer herding Sami people for thousands of years and has for that reason been protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Laponian area.

Its geographical location means that Pajala Municipality has always been a natural trading place, where people from Sweden, Finland and the native Sami people gathered.

The Sámi name of the island, Romsa, is assumed to be a loan from Norse-but according to the phonetical rules of the Sami language the frontal t has disappeared from the name.

The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt, and since 2002, has had two official names: Finnmark ( Norwegian ) and Finnmárku ( Sami language ).

The area has been settled by Sami since time immemorial.

The church is today too small, so a big, wooden church, inspired by Sami architecture, has been built.

This cliff formation has the appearance of a church, and in former times was used by Sami people as a place of sacrifice.

The division of the shield symbolizes the importance of the number three: The three main sources of income are agriculture, mining, and fishing ; the municipality has three rivers ( Neiden, Pasvikelva and Jakobselva ) that form the borders of Norway, Russia, and Finland ; and there are three cultures in the municipality: Norwegians, Finns, and Sami.

The area has always had a strong Sami influence.

Salten Museum has four exhibitions: The Lofoten Fisheries, a Sami exhibit, a Viking treasure, and an exhibition about Bodø's history from 1816 to 2000.

Tysfjord has a very large population of Lule Sami people.

With the Norwegian language and Lule Sami language both as official languages of the municipality, Tysfjord is the only municipality in Norway where speakers of Lule Sami should theoretically be able to speak that language with officials, although this has not come completely to fruition.

The Sámi name of the island, Romsa, is assumed to be a loan from Norse-but according to the phonetical rules of the Sami language the frontal t has disappeared from the name.

Sami culture, though, has survived in parts of Storfjord to the present.

Image: Riddu Riđđu ( 8 ). jpg | Ande Somby, Sami vocalist and law professor at the University of Tromsø from Sirbma, Finnmark, performing with his band Vajas at the 2007 Riddu Riđđu festival

Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, née Mari Boine Olsen ( born 8 November 1956 ) is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people.

Sami, initially named as the modern Malcolm Marshall by Imran Khan, made his Test cricket debut against New Zealand in 2001 by taking 8 wickets for 106 runs in the match, including five wickets in the second innings.

By the end of the transfer window, after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he had brought four new players to is new side: a German Sami Khedira (€ 13 million ), a German Turk Mesut Özil (€ 15 million ), Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho (€ 8 million ) and the winger Ángel di María (€ 25 million plus € 11 million on incentives ).

On the 8 December he made his first League start in place of Sami Hyypiä against Reading in which Liverpool lost the game three goals to one.

There are many more suicide cases among the Sami than ethnic Swedes.

In the Estonian language and Sami languages, apocopes help explain the forms of grammatical cases.

In Ume Sami, the negative verb conjugates according to mood ( indicative and imperative ), person ( 1st, 2nd and 3rd ) and number ( singular, dual and plural ).

The Old Norse form of the name was Finnahlíð, where the first element is the plural genitive case of finnr which means " Sami person " ( because the district was mostly populated by Sami people at the time ).

In Inari Sami, the locative suffix is-st.

* 2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

Preaspirated stops also occur in some Sami languages ; for example, in Sami, the unvoiced stop phonemes,,, are pronounced preaspirated (, ) when they occur in medial or final position.

Brigitte Bardot and Sami Frey in Saint-Tropez, 1963. On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot was married to director Roger Vadim.

:" Adalvard the Elder ( Adalwardus senior ) was to superintend both lands of the Geats ( uterque praefectus est Gothiae ), Adalvard the Younger Sigtuna ( Sictunam ) and Uppsala ( Ubsalam ), Simeon ( Symon ) the Sami people ( Scritefingos ), John ( Iohannes ) the islands of the Baltic Sea.

Estonian and some Sami languages have three phonemic lengths: short, geminate, and long geminate, although the distinction between the geminate and overlong geminate includes suprasegmental features.

In the 2009 film Agora, Cyril is played by Sami Samir as an extremist that opposes Orestes's attempts to harmonize the different communities of Alexandria.

Some Druze and non-Druze scholars like Samy Swayd and Sami Makarem state that this confusion is due to confusion about the role of the early preacher ad-Darazi, whose teachings the Druze rejected as heretical.

Morsi also retired Sami Anan, the Army ’ s Chief of Staff.

There are 4, 500 of them living in Finland today and they are recognised as a minority and speak three distinct languages: Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami.

* Aldeeb, Sami.

Supervision by Scandinavian Sami ended in 1978 and subsequent results were dismal.

At that point, only one Greenlander was still a deerherd ; the rest about 20 people were still hired Norwegian Sami.

Starting about that time, people migrated to the area of Finland from the Kunda and-possibly-Swiderian cultures, and they are believed to be ancestors of today's Finnish and Sami people in Finland.

A kantele ( pronounced in Finnish or harppu in Sami ) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland and Karelia.

* Sami Runsas ( author of NanoZip ) maintains Compression Ratings, a benchmark similar to Maximum Compression multiple file test, but with minimum speed requirements.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

When all Jews were compelled to flee Alqosh in 1948, the iron keys to the tomb were handed to a Chaldean man by the name of Sami Jajouhana.

Finnish and Sami languages are related to each other, as well as to Hungarian, Estonian and several minority languages spoken in Western Russia, but are entirely unrelated to Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

The extreme north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the most North-Western part of Russia, is home to the region's original inhabitants, the today's minority of Sami, who originally inhabited a much larger area, before the expansion of the Scandinavians northward.