<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Pekka and all,</div><div><br></div><div>the link leads you to the metadata catalogue. According to the wish of the researcher and other collectors involved, the actual recordings are not freely accessible. You need to ask Elisabeth Scheller, I am only the archive curator in this case. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Oct 29, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Pekka Sammallahti wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear all,<br><br>A praiseworthy endevor!<br><br>I couldn't open Michael's Akkala link. I would have liked to hear it with my own ears, just to convince myself that Akkala is not confused with Sââ´rves. The two languages coexisted in Yona for decades but the last recordings I've heard indicate that they didn't merge at least as far as their phonologies are concerned.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Pekka<br><br>Quoting Michael Rießler <<a href="mailto:michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de">michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de</a>>:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thank you Flo and Riho! I find this a very useful initiative.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A few notes on East-Saamic:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">* Akkala is certainly not extinct, one speaker was recently recorded, see <a href="http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1564782%23">http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1564782%23</a>.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">* The most reliable estimation of Kildin speakers presents Scheller 2011 (or elsewhere): "The Saami language situation in Russia" in: Uralica Helsingiensia 5. Scheller distinguishes between about 100 active and 700 passive speakers. Your figure of 350 speakers is in between these two and seems reasonable to me.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">* Skolt does in fact also have speakers in Norway. I personally know two speakers who live in Neiden. They are both fluent and active speakers, at least one of them is among the leading revitalizers having published books in Skolt Saami and teaching it at the school in Sevettijärvi/Finland (30km from Neiden). I have heard about a third speaker living in Kirkenes. Although they have only moved to Norway from the Finish side, they have lived in Norway permanently for several (if not many) years (both with Norwegian partners) and they continue using Skolt Saami between each other or with other visiting Skolt Saami. One of them is even a Norwegian citizen. Being permanent inhabitants of Norway, living on traditional Skolt Saami territories (in an area which was always characterized by cross-border communication) and obviously being quite active speakers, it seems anachronistic to exclude them from being counted as Skolt Saami of Norway.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michael Rießler<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. Michael Rießler<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Skandinavisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/mitarbeiter/riessler">www.skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/mitarbeiter/riessler</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de">michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 29, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Florian Siegl wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Over the last month, the Department of Finno-Ugric studies in Helsinki has collected and re-evaluated existing statistical data concerning estimated numbers of speakers (!) of individual Uralic languages. As this data is biased, we have decided to make our estimations available on Ura-List in order to gather feedback and suggestions. The overall intention is NOT to present an exact number of speakers (see also principles in the attached file) which would result in a sanctioned list, but to arrive at a reasonably realistic estimation which can be used e. g. in teaching, research or PR work. Although this should not need any further explanation, we wish to exemplify this with two instances which demonstrate the urgency of such an endeavor; the number of Lule Saami speakers has been estimated as roughly 1500-2000, and this number has been around for a longer period. Recent estimations from within the Lule Saami community operate with roughly 700 speakers only ? the resulting discrepancy is 50%. A similar case is to be expected for Forest Nenets. The number of speakers has been reported exceeding 1000 for quite a while now, but may actually not exceed 700 when taking general demographic trends into consideration.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Further, several languages were once a while reported as extinct (e. g. Livonian, Ume Saami and Pite Saami) though for all languages L1 speakers could still be found. Possibly Akkala Saami could also be added to this list.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As Ura-List, unfortunately, does not stimulate much online discussion, we encourage subscribers to comment this particular matter online. Of course, we also welcome offline comments. These should be sent to <a href="mailto:florian.siegl@helsinki.fi">florian.siegl@helsinki.fi</a>. Please state on which kind of evidence your assumptions rest and if possible provide links to further online resources, own work etc. Please also state if we are allowed to quote your data/assumption publicly as p. c. if this would become necessary.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A summary will be posted on Ura-List. A more ?official? mode of representation is currently also thought of perhaps resulting in an updated version of the 1992 map Geographical Distribution of the Uralic Languages (then compiled by Grünthal & Salminen). A suitable online forum is also currently debated on.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Last, but not least, please forward this message to colleagues and language activists who are not subscribers of Ura-List.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Florian Siegl<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">PhD, researcher<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">P.O.Box 24<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">FIN-00014 University of Helsinki<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Finland<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><Uralic_Languages_Speakers_2012.doc><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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