{"id":134767,"date":"2024-10-21T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:20:16","slug":"funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding cuts could mean death of S\u00e1mi languages, say Indigenous parliaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134767\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Sweden and Finland plan to withdraw funding to safeguard nine languages defined as threatened by Unesco. The Indigenous parliaments of Sweden, Finland and Norway have warned that some S\u00e1mi languages could disappear if Stockholm and Helsinki press ahead with plans to withdraw funding that could hit a critical preservation body.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1mi Giellag\u00e1ldu was created to safeguard, promote and strengthen the use of the nine S\u00e1mi languages across the Nordics, including North S\u00e1mi, which is spoken by an estimated 20,000 people across Norway, Sweden and Finland and classified by Unesco as endangered, and the much smaller Pite S\u00e1mi and Ute S\u00e1mi, which have less than 50 speakers each.<\/p>\n<p>But just two years after it was made a permanent institution working to promote the languages and develop new terminology and standardisations essential for keeping them alive, the Swedish and Finnish governments have announced funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Saijets, the director general of S\u00e1mi Giellag\u00e1ldu, described it as a regressive step that would take the region \u201c50 years backward\u201d and accused the governments of \u201ccutting the heart out of the language\u201d. There is a tangible risk that the languages could vanish as a result, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big risk that some of these languages will disappear. All S\u00e1mi languages are defined as threatened or critically threatened according to Unesco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are 80,000 to 100,000 S\u00e1mi people in northern Europe, the continent\u2019s only Indigenous group. Sweden is to cut 5m Swedish kroner (\u00a3365,000) a year for the organisation \u2013 a contribution that it says was always a \u201ctemporary investment\u201d \u2013 and the Finnish government is understood to be cutting \u20ac193,000 (\u00a3160,000) of targeted funding to the S\u00e1mi parliament of Finland, forcing it to reconsider allocation of funds. \u201cIt\u2019s so dramatic. We have been in complete shock,\u201d Saijets said, adding that if the funding is cut as planned, the organisation will not survive beyond a year. He compared the cuts to the past attempts at the Swedification, Finlandisation and Norwegianisation of Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments\/\">Funding cuts could mean death of S\u00e1mi languages, say Indigenous parliaments<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1009,16573,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-death","tag-sami-languages","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}