About Lule Sami
Annotating and Documenting LuleSaami online
Annotating and documenting LuleSaami 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 Sami language. Traditionally, the Sami have lived by reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and farming, but today, the Sami have both traditional and modern jobs. There are many interesting sites about Saami and the Saami people online. For example...
Lulesaami
As for this page we can only give you a brief glimpse into the Lule Saami culture, but...