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Sentence Examples The Sami in northern Norway say that time is always coming rather than going. Dravid had missed out on a lovely batting surface in Multan, consumed on a rather hasty pull by Sami. Sami loved bikes, lived for them, so we bought him a moped, a 50 cc bike in bright yellow, his favourite colour. Under general director Sami Caner, the parent center also sponsors a chamber orchestra and a full-scale philharmonic orchestra. While the Sami, or Lapps, are commonly thought of as the inhabitants of Lapland, they have never had a country of their own. In northern Scandinavia, many rights of the Sami peoples are respected vis-a-vis their traditional pursuits. On the packed-ice road, it's not uncommon to see an indigenous Sami herding reindeer. The Swedes are a Scandinavian people descended from Germanic tribes who emigrated to the region in ancient times, displacing the indigenous Sami. A couple of slogs by Sami then happened and he was caught plumb in front by Kumble. The Sami, as a nomadic tribe, never concerned itself much with borders anyway as it herded reindeer across the region. The early dismissal meant that Sami, who rarely looked like taking a wicket before that passage of play, had something in the bank to show. The story about him, the shaman in a Sami village in Norway, evokes ideas about a religious tradition being kept alive in secret. Today most Sami practice the dominant Lutheran religion of the Nordic countries in which they live. They're dressed, as Sami usually are, in modern clothing with several traditional touches. The Sami of northern Scandinavia used the inner bark of Scots pines for food. No one is ever quite sure how the Sami people of Lapland managed to lay such undisputed claim to the fact that Santa Claus abides among them. He tried to pull a short ball from Sami from outside off stump, top-edged it, and was caught by the bowler running towards midwicket. There are also Swedish and other European variants, but there is only one Sami example, which must also have been told by Ellen. Some groups of Sami practice reindeer nomadism and range across northern Sweden and Finland. He obtained a PhD in both philology and theology and possessed great knowledge of both the Sami and Finnish languages. Show More Sentences During the 1990s, descendants of the executed men demanded the return of the skulls so that they could be buried in Sami land. This is a variant of the Cinderella tale, which is not found in Norwegian tradition but occurs in eight Sami variants. In it, a Sami village is attacked by a marauding tribe from the east called the Tjudes. My first winter at Earthways, I built a gamme, a traditional dwelling of Scandinavia's Sami people, who also are called Lapps. The Sami, like the Inuit, lived in the Arctic for thousands of years before European whalers braved the Northern climate. They willingly accept other Sami who may not be full-blooded. With that task accomplished, the Sami team can get to work on the task of galactic demographics in earnest. The Sami also invented their own musical instrument, a small reed pipe. He published a series of books on the Sami language, names and folklore. She had had a couple of narratives about Sami shamans, noaidies, so she was asked if it was a fact that some people had the ability to inflict evil on others. It is almost uniquely Finnish, lines in descriptions of the trip to the imaginary world having counterparts in the Kalevala and also in Sami practices. In a dramatic reversal, the Afghan insurgents now want to make friends with the U.S. By Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. Although this legend is told in many places in Norway, it is favoured among the Sami people and features the enemy as the Russians, Swedes or just plain robbers. Tamatea High School halfback Sami Lauano cleared the ball well and had a high defensive workrate while fullback Kris Alexander was another to shine in the winning backline. This article was reported and written by Sami Yousafzai with additional material and editing by Christopher Dickey. Sami territory lies at latitudes above 62 degrees north, and much of it is above the Arctic Circle, with dark, cold winters and warm, light summers. Of those, 36 cases involved a determination of the rights of individual Sami in Finland and Sweden. Sami people have had very little representation in Finnish national politics. This convention recognizes the Sami as one indigenous people residing across national borders in all three countries. Some regions have ribbonwork, others have tin embroidery, and some Eastern Sami have beading on clothing or collar. Show More Sentences Reindeer husbandry has been and still is an important aspect of Sami culture. Among the reindeer herders in Sami villages, the women usually have a higher level of formal education in the area. Lapland can be either misleading or offensive, or both, depending on the context and where this word is used, to the Sami. A division often used in Northern Sami is based on occupation and the area of living. As of 2005, 12,538 people were registered to vote in the election for the Sami Parliament in Norway. Due to recent migration, it has also been claimed that Oslo is the municipality with the largest Sami population. As of 31 December 2006, only 1776 of them had registered to speak one of the Sami languages as the mother tongue. There are an estimated 30,000 people living in North America who are either Sami, or descendants of Sami. Some of these Sami immigrants and descendants of immigrants are members of the Sami Siida of North America. There is no single, unified Sami parliament that spans across the Nordic countries. In all three countries, they act as an institution of cultural autonomy for the indigenous Sami people. In 2010, the Sami Council supported the establishment of a cultural center in Russia for Arctic peoples. Court proceedings have been common throughout history, and the aim from the Sami viewpoint is to reclaim territories used earlier in history. The Sami National Day falls on February 6 as this date was when the first Sami congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway. Ali Dawish, Sami Saloom and Abdulla Al Murbati also contributed to Um Al Hassam's triumph. Some Norwegian and Sami celebrities are reported to visit shamans for guidance. Several Uralic Sami languages are spoken and written throughout the country, especially in the north, by some members of the Sami people. The Sami people have never been a single community in a single region of Lapland. Its debating chamber, in timber, is an abstract version of a lavvo, the traditional tent used by the nomadic Sami people. The Indian concert pianist, music composer and singer Adnan Sami also studied at Rugby School. Show More Sentences Krauss published in 1997 an estimate of Sami population and their languages. Finnish is closely related to Karelian and Estonian and more remotely to the Sami languages and Hungarian. To the north, in Lapland, are the Sami people, numbering around 7,000 and recognized as an indigenous people. The Sami languages that are spoken in Finland are Northern Sami, Inari Sami, and Skolt Sami. The people of northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway, the Sami, are known primarily for highly spiritual songs called joik. The Sami are estimated to have adopted a Uralic language less than 2,500 years ago. The Sami originally had their own shamanistic religion, but they converted to Lutheranism by Swedish missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries. There is Sami music, called the joik, which is a type of chant which is part of the traditional Sami animistic spirituality. The other is Sami, spoken by some members of the Sami people, mostly in the Northern part of Norway. Reindeer have been herded for centuries by several Arctic and Subarctic people including the Sami and the Nenets. Ohthere reported that the Beormas spoke a language related to that of the Sami. Away from the sea a wilderness of moors, or mountains, lay to the east and was inhabited by Finnas, a reference to the Sami people. Sami languages form an unrelated group that has coexisted with the North Germanic language group in Scandinavia since prehistory. During centuries of interaction, Finnish and Sami have imported many more loanwords from North Germanic languages than vice versa. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. Traditionally, the Sami have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping. Some Sami regard these as pejorative terms, while others accept at least the name Lappland. The Sami are counted among the Arctic peoples and are members of circumpolar groups such as the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat. How far south the Sami extended in the past has been debated among historians and archeologists for many years. Until the arrival of bubonic plague in northern Norway in 1349, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches. Show More Sentences Fishing has always been the main livelihood for the many Sami living permanently in coastal areas. For long periods of time, the Sami lifestyle thrived because of its adaptation to the Arctic environment. However, during the 19th century, Norwegian authorities pressured the Sami to make Norwegian language and culture universal. The strongest pressure took place from around 1900 to 1940, when Norway invested considerable money and effort to wipe out Sami culture. The indigenous Sami population is a mostly urbanised demographic, but a substantial number live in villages in the high arctic. These regions have served as reindeer calving and summer grounds for thousands of years, and contain many ancient Sami sacred sites. As a result, the opposition in the Alta controversy brought attention to not only environmental issues but also the issue of Sami rights. The government promised Sami indemnification, which was not acted upon by government. Sami activists have pushed for nationwide application of these basic rights. In 1998, Sweden formally apologized for the wrongs committed against the Sami. The resolution for celebrating on 6 February was passed in 1992 at the 15th Sami congress in Helsinki. Since 1993, Norway, Sweden and Finland have recognized February 6 as Sami National Day. The fragments were termed Theory of Gods, Theory of Sacrifice, Theory of Prophecy, or short reports about rumorous Sami magic and Sami sagas. Generally, he claims to have filtered out the Norse influence and derived common elements between the South, North, and Eastern Sami groups. In this period, many Sami practiced their traditional religion at home, while going to church on Sunday. In the far east of the Sami area, the Russian monk Trifon converted the Sami in the 16th century. Today there are a number of Sami who seek to return to the traditional Pagan values of their ancestors. There is no single Sami language, but a group of ten distinct Sami languages. Most Sami languages are spoken in several countries, because linguistic borders do not correspond to national borders. This is due in part to historic laws prohibiting the use of Sami languages in schools and at home in Sweden and Norway. Show More Sentences Special residential schools that would assimilate the Sami into the dominant culture were established. Not all Sami viewed the schools negatively, and not all of the schools were brutal. The Sami languages belong to the Uralic language family, linguistically related to Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. Efforts are being made to further the use of Sami languages among Sami and persons of Sami origin. The genetic makeup of Sami people has been extensively studied for as long as such research has been in existence. Ethnographic photography of the Sami began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century. Thus, there is a degree of distrust by some in the Sami community towards genetic research. However it is possible that he was referring to the people of northern Europe in general, particularly the Lappic or Sami people. An etymological link between the Sami and the Finns exists in modern Uralic languages as well. Most Sami live in Norway followed by Sweden and Finland, while the fewest Sami live in Russia. Sami is spoken in several variants, nowadays mostly regarded as separate languages. Traditionally, the Sami have plied a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping and sheep herding. Since its establishment, the prize has been won by 15 Swedish, 10 Danish, 10 Norwegian, 8 Finnish, 7 Icelandic, 2 Faroe and 1 Sami writers. There, he studied Sami and Finnish in order to determine whether they were related to the Scandinavian languages. Furthermore, legislation specifically concerning the Sami must be translated to these languages. This process is extensively developed in Estonian and Sami, and makes them also inflected, not only agglutinating languages. The diphthong system in Northern Sami varies considerably from one dialect to another. In the southern part of Norrland, Swedish and Norwegian settlers lived side by side with the Sami population. From this Sami word, the word tundra is borrowed, as well, through the Russian language. About 1000 BC, speakers of Uralic languages arrived in the north and assimilated with the indigenous population, becoming the Sami people. Show More Sentences First stepladder match was played by Sami Team, Star Eagles and Pin Rakers. Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai report on the alleged corruption. Sami Brookes and Johnny Robinson from the over-25s have been sleeping on beanbags in the loft to escape. Syrian analyst Sami al-Mubayed says the IRGC still can force Sadr to fall in line with its strategy for Iraq. But the pretty red-head revealed it's not the end of the line for her friendship with Sami, 31, from Rhyl, North Wales. The comments came after Misha and Sami, left, had a heated argument during Friday's rehearsals. Speaking to reporters at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport, Sami Yusuf said that he was very happy to be in Turkey. Immediately before his father's arrest, Sami catches him in a lie, creating doubt of his innocence. Instead he accused Sami of appointing his blue-eyed boys to the IEC regional office. From here you go into a Sami hut for a dinner of reindeer and moose. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau report on the indecision in the ranks. Sami Abu Obeid, 37, makes cinder blocks and concrete, and the ingredients he needs are all black-listed. According to grammars it includes all Finnic and Sami languages, Moksha, Udmurt, Nganasan, Hungarian and Mansi. Less is known about the other officer, Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan. Singer Adnan Sami has been issued a notice by the Mumbai police for overstaying in India after his visa expired earlier this month. Ashley Faulk, Sami Wilson, Lailek Alsamani and Haylee Eckart scored in the first part of the shootout, which ended in a 4-4 tie. In Scandinavia, there is a long history of assimilation of and by the Sami people and Finnic peoples, namely Finns and Karelians. Sami and Norwegian are equal as administrative languages in this area. The Sami, one of Sweden's indigenous minorities, have their holiday on 6 February and Scania celebrate their Scanian Flag day on the third Sunday in July. Many Sami do not speak any of the Sami languages any more due to historical assimilation policies, so the number of Sami living in each area is much higher. Show More Sentences Still, due to the cultural assimilation of the Sami people that had occurred in the four countries over the centuries, population estimates are difficult to measure precisely. During the years of forced assimilation, the areas in which reindeer herding was an important livelihood were among the few where the Sami culture and language survived. Owing to the close proximity, there is still a great deal of borrowing from the Swedish and Norwegian languages in the Finnish and Sami languages. This congress was the first time that Norwegian and Swedish Sami came together across their national borders to work together to find solutions for common problems. A characteristic feature of Sami musical tradition is the singing of yoik. Sami Brookes Rowetta, who made the talent show's final four, went on to tour in The Songs of Sister Act alongside Sheila Ferguson, and also presents her own radio show. Widespread Shamanism persisted among the Sami up until the 18th century. Among other roles, the Sami Shaman, or noaidi, enabled ritual communication with the supernatural through the use of tools such as drums, chants, and sacred objects. Other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Buryat, Chukchi, Evenks, Inupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sami, Yukaghir, Gwich'in, and Yupik. A small minority of Sami people live in the extreme north of Scandinavia. That's why we decided to build this channel, says Sami Garam. Speaking to Qatar Tribune, Chair of E-Day Committee Sami al Turkawi Hasib said the main aim of day was to promote science and engineering among young children. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital in Ankara, said premature birth and medical complications caused by premature births are the greatest causes of death in newborns. There are also some Sami who claim to be noaidi and offer their services through newspaper advertisements, in New Age arrangements, or for tourist groups. About a quarter of them speak a Sami language as their mother tongue. To make up for past suppression, the authorities of Norway, Sweden and Finland now make an effort to build up Sami cultural institutions and promote Sami culture and language. A set of minimum standards is proposed for the rights of developing the Sami language and culture and rights to land and water, livelihoods and society. Sami is one of five national minority languages recognized by Swedish law. In 2010, after 14 years of negotiation, Laponiatjuottjudus, an association with Sami majority control, will govern the UNESCO World Heritage Site Laponia. In addition, the Sami have special rights to reindeer husbandry. Show More Sentences This has effectively allowed the Finnish government to take without compensation, motivated by economic gain, land occupied by the Sami for centuries. In addition, Sami parents still feel alienated from schools and hence do not participate as much as they could in shaping school curricula and policy. Anthropologists have been studying the Sami people for hundreds of years for their assumed physical and cultural differences from the rest of the Europeans. The Sami have for centuries been the subject of discrimination and abuse by the dominant cultures claiming possession of their lands right unto the present day. To the Sami, this is an insulting display of cultural exploitation. Greenpeace, reindeer herders, and Sami organisations carried out a historic joint campaign, and in 2010, Sami reindeer herders won some time as a result of these court cases. Sami people were exhibited with their traditional lavvu tents, weapons, and sleds, beside a group of reindeer at Tierpark Hagenbeck and other zoos across the globe. Mining projects are rejected by the Sami Parliament in the Finnmark area. Government troops were ordered to prevent the Sami from fleeing. Various Sami languages are spoken in northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed. Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed population of Norse and Sami people in the mountainous areas of southern Norway in the Middle Ages. The Sami people are among the largest indigenous ethnic groups in Europe. For traditional, environmental, cultural, and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved for only Sami people in some regions of the Nordic countries. For traditional, environmental, cultural and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved only for Sami people in certain regions of the Nordic countries. The Sami extirpated wolves in northern Sweden in organized drives. Emilie returned to Copenhagen and enrolled in a rare class on the Sami language at the university, taught by the Finno-Ugric specialist, Vilhelm Thomsen. The Sami of Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula of Russia and other nomadic peoples of northern Asia use reindeer for food, clothing, and transport. The Sami cultural identity and the Sami language have survived in Lapland, the northernmost province, but the Sami have been displaced or assimilated elsewhere. It is used in Finnish, Japanese, in Sanskrit, and in the Sami languages. Show More Sentences Sami Munshi claimed 2-15 and Rithik 2-18 were the main wicket takers. Norwegian and Sami are the two official languages of Norway. Consonant gradation is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sami dialects, but it is not present in south Sami, which is considered to have a different language history. Sami is spoken by less than one percent of people in Norway. In 2010, Sweden was criticized for its relations with the Sami in the Universal Periodic Review conducted by the Working Group of the Human Rights Council. Even though Sami land is far away from the capital, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History marks the Sami National Day with a series of activities and entertainment. Cases question the Sami ancient rights to reindeer pastures. The main organisations for Sami representation in Sweden are the siidas. The main organisations for Sami representation in Norway are the siidas. The Sami languages are indigenous minority languages in Scandinavia. Examples from Classical Literature Now Sami was found, an attendant whom he could call whenever he wanted him. Now Trudi and Sami came into the room, and bowed to him as they passed through. Gradually young Sami grew up and was able to help the cousin in the fields. Sami had listened in silence, but like one who does not understand what he hears. But when Sami tried to do this, the hoe was too heavy for him, and he could do nothing. It was the same way Sami had often gone with his grandmother down to la Tour. Tell him your grandmother was the sergeant's mary ann and your father was Sami. Iranian-born Sami Yusuf's new single was produced by local musician and producer Jon Lawton, who runs Crosstown Studios in Liverpool. Sami squatted down and pulled at the weeds with all his might. But there she was, drawn by Sami, just coming into the courtyard. Stffi doubled up his fist, and Sami understood what that meant. Sami was to work for good pay in Malon's beautiful vineyard. Nothing had ever tasted so good to Sami in all his life as this soup. 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