37.2105, Confs: 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (Norway)

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Date: 16-Jun-2026
From: Hanna Danbolt Ajer [hanna.d.ajer at nord.no]
Subject: 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium


7th Saami Linguistics Symposium
Short Title: SAALS7
Theme: Saami language revitalization and education, general
linguistics

Date: 04-Nov-2026 - 05-Nov-2026
Location: Bodø, Norway
Meeting URL: https://site.nord.no/saami-linguistics-symposium-7/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Sami

Buorisboahtem / Buerie båeteme/ Welcome to the 7th Saami Linguistics
Symposium (SAALS 7) 4-5 November at Nord University, Bodø, Norway!
Early registration is now open, and the information about and link to
the registration is available on our webiste:
https://site.nord.no/saami-linguistics-symposium-7/registration/
The preliminary programme for SAALS 7 can bo found below (as well as
on our website):
Wednesday 04 November
08.30-09.00 Registration and coffee
09.00-09.15 Opening of SAALS 7
09.15-09.45 Lee, Tjihkkom & Varona: Rejecting linguistic purism in
Lule Saami: Decolonising language planning
09.45-10.15: Kroik & Kowalik: Establishing common ground:
codeswitching and translanguaging in South Saami
10.15-10.30: Coffee break
10.30-11.30: Keynote lecture – Inga Lill Sigga Mikkelsen: Productive
Lule Saami children through kindergarten – Experiences of kindergarten
workers Anna Andersen, Charlotte Paulsen, Heidi Andersen and May Bente
Knutsen
11.30-12.30: Lunch
12.30-13.00, session A: Mäkelä: Initial test reader-based findings of
what reader friendly North Sámi social and health care texts could
look like
12.30-13.00, session B: Omma: Giving grammatical feedback to North
Sámi writers
13.00-13.30, session A: Porsanger, Berg, Rydland, Olsen &
Melby-Lervåg: What Do We Know About Language and Literacy
Interventions for Indigenous Children? Implications for Sámi Language
Revitalization
13.00-13.30, session B: Ojala: Integrating linguistics in the
development of automatic speech recognition for North Saami
13.30-14.00, session A: Berg, Porsanger, Rydland, Olsen &
Melby-Lervåg: Language Use at Home and in Preschool Among North Sámi
Children in Norway
13.30-14.00, session B: Hiovain-Asikainen & Suni: Uralic Multilingual
TTS for Supporting Endangered Languages in the Digital Realm
14.00-14.30: Coffee break
14.30-15.00, session A: Benini-Morottaja: Kielâmiäštár and
Oppâmmääđhih: Indigenous Language Learning Methodologies in Inari Sámi
and Apurinã Indigenous Communities
14.30-15.00, session B: Trosterud: Konrad Nielsen's Lappisk ordbok:
Background and consequences
15.00-15.30, session A: Rhys, Packer & Young: Research in a
revitalisation context: The case of Wales
15.00-15.30, session B: Olthuis & Trosterud: This dictionary is not
for turning. Problems encountered when working with a Finnish - Inari
Saami dictionary
18.30 onwards: Conference dinner
Thursday 5 November
08.30-09.00: Coffee
09.00-09.30, session A: Vangsnes: The turn of the tide for Sámi in
Norwegian education
09.00-09.30, session B: Kejonen: The Saami loanwords in Swedish
09.30-10.00, session A: van der Voet: Comparing Curricula for Sami
Language Education
09.30-10.00, session B: Kuokkala: Proto-Saami *-tē- verbs and their
backgrounds
10.00-10.15: Coffee break
10.15-11.15: Keynote lecture – Pigga Keskitalo: Voices from Five Sámi
Languages: Co-developing Sámi Teaching in Nordic Primary Education
11.15-12.15: Lunch
12.15-12.45, session A: Svenonius: Discontinuous Complements of North
Sámi Postpositions
12.15-12.45, session B: Egorov: Phonological innovations of Akkala
Saami: between Skolt and Kildin
12.45-13.15, session A: Mus & Rießler: Exploring constituent order
variation in Kildin Saami
12.45-13.15, session B: Zaitsev: ‘Great Saami vowel shift’ and beyond:
particular subsystem change and newly arisen phonological contrasts in
Proto-Saami historical phonetics
13.15-13.45, session A: Kivinen & Leino: The existential and habitive
constructions in North Saami and Finnish
13.15-13.45, session B: Aikio & Juutinen: Rethinking the Taxonomy of
the Saami Languages
13.45-14.15: Coffee break
14.15-14.45, session A: Lehtinen: Potential mood in Skolt Saami and in
the neighboring Saami languages
14.15-14.45, session B: Chon & Aikio: Language contact effects of the
northeast spread of reindeer pastoralism and North Saami
14.45-15.15, session A: Hansen: Passivized causative constructions in
Kildin Saami: complex derivations in -xuvv- and -tuvv-
14.45-15.15, session B: Valtonen: Changing landscapes, changing
namescapes: Changes in Skolt Saami place name systems after
resettlement to Aanar
15.15-15.30: Closing of SAALS 7



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