E-learning: South Saami

The REMODUS Consortium / Uppsala University offered an online course on South Saami. The course offered an overview of South Saami, with focus on the language's grammatical structure, but with elements of learning communicative skills as well. South Saami is a small and endangered Uralic language spoken by 500-1000 speakers in Sweden and Norway. It is currently revitalized and its use increases in education and media, which makes South Saami interesting not least from a socio-linguistic perspective. It also represents the western-most Uralic language and the end of the Saamic dialect continuum.

The course started with an introduction to Saamic languages (taught by Torbjörn Söder and Rogier Blokland) followed by the language course itself (taught by Richard Kowalik). It covered the main word classes, their inflection and their function, and the main syntactic features of the language. We trained to write and speak in group exercises. Two guest lectures on language revitalization and on historical aspects of the language were held.

An output based on this course will be published over the course of our project.