Originally yoik was practiced in different forms all over the Sami-inhabited area . However, during the assimilation process of the Sami culture yoik as well as many other traditional cultural features of the Sami were fundamentally weakened and had seemingly disappeared in some regions . Moreover the societal and cultural development of what we call “modernity”, that is transition from rural to industrial-technological culture , has likely changed the extent to which yoik is used .