| As a Saami herder fed one plump animal, the Governor General wanted to know what reindeers usually eat. |
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| Saami languages, being of the Finno-Ugric family, are agglutinative, creating words by linear concatenation of morphemes. |
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| The Saami and the Estonians are the closest populations, while the Finns are separate and the Latvians and Lithuanians are close together but somewhat separated from the rest. |
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| If we take Finland as an example, we find that the Saami, Romanies, and Swedes have to learn Finnish, but Finns do not have to learn any of these languages. |
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| Saami women went from monolingualism in Saami to monolingualism in Norwegian in a very short period of time without much of a period of transitional bilingualism. |
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| In contrast, the Saami, Finns, and Estonians speak languages belonging to the Uralic family, otherwise spoken across a broad region of northern Asia. |
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| Mitochondrial DNA studies have discovered a close link between Berbers and the Saami of Scandinavia. |
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| The Saami of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia have their own unique culture, with ties to the neighboring cultures. |
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| The reindeer has an important economic role for all circumpolar peoples, including the Saami, Nenets, Khants, Evenks, Yukaghirs, Chukchi, and Koryaks in Eurasia. |
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