#14 A book in a different language to yours.

nice, you are Sami but don´t speak it :))

So it is =D

Sami as a Finnish forename comes from Samuel, and has nothing to do with Sami people and language. Just a coincidence. When I spent few years up north, I tried to learn some Sami language though, but way too difficult for me. There are some same or very similar words, and even the grammar, but otherwise it is difficult.

An example at YLE Areena
areena.yle.fi/1-1855911

aah, that's the question, I wanted to ask you since last summer !
... 1 week I was crossing the SÁPMI area in the North. May be, Sami-people come from the same genetic pool like Inouit in Greenland (f.e. only) ... absolute different to blonde "typical scandinavians". And NO chance to understand only one word of their speech ...

Turns out they are not the same genetic pool as Inuit:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people#Genetic_studies

Also the studies on history, language and culture supports that they have been more like "aboriginals" moved to "Scandinavia" from south, soon after the ice age was over. Vikings and other "invaders" coming after them took over the lands and pressed the peaceful Sami people to move further up north. For example in southern parts of Finland there are especially a lot of place names that has origins in Sami language. It is normal in languages that invaders killed the men and took women as mother of their children, and then the male vocabulary took over on male activities like hunting. But female vocabulary like names of places and objects of home passed from mothers to daughters.

This is what I have learned andheard, and not necessary very scientific fact though ;-)

I have not read any Russian poetry lately :)

That brought into my mind a silly question, whether an audio or digital book are counted as well(?) =D

So, listening a book in foreign language would be easy... =)

Some OCR software might solve this cyrillic puzzle.Anyway, on euro banknotes a tiny bit of cyrillic is used.

Indeed it could! =)

Or I walk back to that library and find out the book's name and author =D

If I only remember what book it was....

Now I have to read about the Sami language ... not familar with that so something new learned today!

It sounds sort of cute! =D