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Wikipedia suggests around 100,000. Which doesn't sound like a lot, and maybe it isn't, but two useful comparisons are the 300,000 Icelanders and the 50,000 Far
by samatman 5y ago
Wikipedia suggests around 100,000.
Which doesn't sound like a lot, and maybe it isn't, but two useful comparisons are the 300,000 Icelanders and the 50,000 Faroese. If they're dying out that isn't clear from the numbers.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoThe Sami are assimilating rapidly though. They have been intermarrying for generations (previously often by force, these days quite voluntarily), and unlike Icelandic and Faroese, the Sami languages are dying fast since they've been replaced by Norwegian, Swedish etc.
- samatman 5y agoSure, whatever. I don't care about this conversation anymore because I was downvoted by the latest and greatest Europeans with sticks up their asses. Why? We'll never know. Participating in this site is not worth it sometimes.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoI didn't downvote you, but comparing the Sami, thinly stretched across remote regions in four countries, to the independent island nation of Iceland is, uhh, naive.