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7. There is a larger Sami population in Finland

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:07 AM

Oct 2021

as well as in parts of northern Russia. The Sami speak a Finno-Ugric language, as do Finns and Estonians. This language is unrelated to Norwegian or Swedish, which belong to the Indo-European language family.

The name by which they were called previously, Lapps, was a derogatory term meaning rags in Finnish and Estonian. It referred to their clothing.

https://www.visitfinland.com/article/meet-the-sami-finlands-indigenous-people/#d2aa031a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people

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