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Sami
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Sami: see Lapland Lapps or Laplanders, who constitute the indigenous population, number about 80,000; they call themselves Sami. The largest concentration of Lapps are found in Norway (about 50,000), where formerly they were called Finns (hence the province name Finnmark).
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Sami

 or Lapp

Any of the descendants of ancient nomadic peoples who inhabited northern Scandinavia. They may be Paleo-Siberian or alpine peoples from central Europe. Reindeer hunting was the basis of their life from earliest times; herding was the basis of their economy until recently. They became nomadic a few centuries ago. The three Sami languages, mutually unintelligible, are sometimes considered dialects of one language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family. They number about 70,000.


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