hoffish originally started off as a dialect of the sami language in what is guessed to be in the middle ages. all we know about its history is from mina napoi, who interviewed many people of the sami culture. her findings are at the helsinki central library in finland which are currently being approved for digitalization as of february 2021. in her last two pages of her article titled, "saamen murre nimeltä hoseff", she talks about how the language most likely formed as a dialect of sami in the late middle ages but then over time reformed due to the hoffish-sami group's migration. the hoffish-sami people she interviewed said that their ancestors moved a lot from northern finland to as far as southern norway while trading furs. she finally states because of this common migration that the people must of picked up a lot of new nordic words and grammer which in time turned the sami language into what the hoffish people speak today.