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Sami politician refuses to speak Norwegian
Published on 20/12/11 at 21:33:36 GMT by Redaksjonen

Porsanger: Labor politician Kaare Olli refused to speak Norwegian at the municipal Council meeting because Mayor Knut Roger Hansen (Conservatives) refused to bring in Sami interpreter.

When the local board meeting began, Olli went up to the podium and informed the council that he had no intention to speak Norwegian. Olli announced that in his mother-tongue Sami.

Municipal Board member Kare Olli (Labour), insisted to speak Sami despite the fact that the Sami interpreter did not show up. The incident happened at the local board meeting in Porsanger last week

Olli believes that the lack of an interpreter may have consequences for all resolutions passed at the meeting and warns of a possible legality of the municipal board meeting.

- The Mayor has stated that it is a question of cost and has not brought in an interpreter. There is not much respect from the new majority to the Sami language, when one cannot even speak his own language in the municipality's highest body, says Olli to Sagat.

Mayor Knut Roger Hansen (Conservatives) cannot explain the lack of Sami language interpreter and believes that there is a misunderstanding.

- According to the Secretariat, we have ordered the interpreter for the period. More than that I do not know. I do not know when it is decided that we should have an interpreter in the municipal council hall either, says Hanssen to Sagat.

Porsanger is a tri-lingual area where the Norwegian, Sami and Kven languages are equal.

Facts about the Sami languages:
- The Sami languages belong to the Uralic languages group and spread out over northern Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden), northern Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
- Between 20 000 and 30 000 are speaking the various Sami languages.
- The most common Sami languages today are North Sami, Lule and South Sami.
- In an international context, all Sami languages are characterized as endangered or extinct languages.
- Among the Sami languages which used in Norway are Eastern Sami, Pite Sami and Ume Sami languages classified as extinct, while Lule Sami and Southern Sami are considered as severely endangered.
- The development for Northern Sami language has in many ways been positive in recent decades.
- The general impression is that the use of the native languages as a daily language is in decline.
- There are currently no statistics on how many families or individuals who use the Sami languages as a daily language, or how many people speak the Sami languages.

Read more about the Sami languages here (Norwgeian, Sami):http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad/tema/samepolitikk/samiske_sprak/fakta-om-samiske-sprak.html?id=633131

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