page_title: Sápmi
section_title: Languages
hierarchical_section_title: Sápmi / Languages
caption_attribution_description: English: updated minor error new municipalities have gotten sami as an official language. image based on images which were originally based on this public domain image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sami_languages_large.png Čeština: Mapa sámských jazykových oblastí.
context_page_description: Sápmi is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi is in Northern Europe and includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia.
  The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. On the north it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the west by the Norwegian Sea, and on the east by the White Sea. The area is historically referred to as Lapland in English, although the term "Lapp" for its inhabitants is now often discouraged.
  Sápmi refers to the areas where the Sámi people have traditionally lived, but overlaps with other regions and definitions, including regions where Scandinavian settlement predates Sámi settlement and where the Sámi are only a tiny minority, e.g. Trøndelag. In practice most of the Sámi population is largely concentrated in a few traditional areas in the northernmost part of Sápmi, such as Kautokeino and Karasjok, with the exception of those who have left for the larger cities.
  The Sami people are estimated to make up around only 2.5% to 5% of the total population in the Sápmi area.
caption: Map of Saamic language areas
  (see text for explanation of numbers)
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