Sámi Languages and Dialects (2015)
Sámi languages are split into many languages and dialects. Vast majority of the speakers are speaking Northern Sámi. But some have only a couple dozen speakers, and others are already extinct: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sámi_languages#Classification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sámi_languages#Classifica...</a><p>The story of the Sámi people is very similar to many other native people. No independence allowed, decades and&#x2F;or centuries of cultural assimilation and powerlessness. Only now the governments are starting to throw a bone to the Sámi people by funding language nests, but there is a long way to go until the Sámi people are in control of their own future.<p>Interestingly, some Sámi people have taken on rapping to keep their languages alive. One of them being Amoc, who raps in Inari Sámi, which has around 400 speakers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pdjwXx531Y4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pdjwXx531Y4</a>