{"id":258,"date":"2015-10-21T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticincontext.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2021-07-30T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:35:55","slug":"sami-classes-breathe-new-life-into-finlands-rarest-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/2015\/10\/21\/sami-classes-breathe-new-life-into-finlands-rarest-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1mi Classes Breathe New Life into Finland\u2019s Rarest Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><em>This article was previously published by <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\/culture\/2015\/06\/sami-classes-breathe-new-life-finlands-rarest-languages-05-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barents Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new crop of students is about to graduate\u00a0from the\u00a0S\u00e1mi Education Institute\u2019s\u00a0Inari\u00a0S\u00e1mi\u00a0language class. Inari\u00a0S\u00e1mi is\u00a0one of Finland\u2019s most threatened languages, with just a few hundred native speakers remaining. But these language classes promise to turn students into fluent\u00a0S\u00e1mi\u00a0language speakers\u00a0in just eight months.<\/p>\n<p>The courses use a combination of classroom teaching and cultural immersion, where students spend time working with native language speakers in the S\u00e1mi\u00a0community. BarentsObserver went to Inari to learn why young people are taking these classes, and how their new language skills are changing their lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmnsMITNfZM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center\">*****<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center\">*****<\/p>\n<p><em>Maura Forrest and Lily Haines are contributers for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barents Observer<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Porosaivontie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on the World Policy Institute website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was previously published by Barents Observer. By Maura Forrest and Lily Haines A new crop of students is about to graduate\u00a0from the\u00a0S\u00e1mi Education Institute\u2019s\u00a0Inari\u00a0S\u00e1mi\u00a0language class. Inari\u00a0S\u00e1mi is\u00a0one of Finland\u2019s most threatened languages, with just a few hundred native speakers remaining. But these language classes promise to turn students into fluent\u00a0S\u00e1mi\u00a0language speakers\u00a0in just eight<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/2015\/10\/21\/sami-classes-breathe-new-life-into-finlands-rarest-languages\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,16,4],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture-society","tag-finland","tag-indigenous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}