Editing Scandinavia (section)

==== Sámi languages ====
The [[Sámi languages]] are indigenous minority languages in Scandinavia.<ref>{{cite book| author = Oskar Bandle| title = The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6b7WwBC5tRAC| date = March 2005| publisher = Walter de Gruyter| isbn = 978-3-11-017149-5| page = 2115| access-date = 23 April 2023| archive-date = 23 April 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230423132203/https://books.google.com/books?id=6b7WwBC5tRAC| url-status = live}}</ref> They belong to [[Sámi languages|their own]] branch of the [[Uralic languages|Uralic language family]] and are unrelated to the [[North Germanic languages]] other than by limited grammatical (particularly lexical) characteristics resulting from prolonged contact.<ref name="Sapmi">Inez Svonni Fjällström (2006). [http://www.eng.samer.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1185 "A language with deep roots"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005152013/http://www.eng.samer.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1185 |date=5 October 2007 }}.''Sápmi: Language history'', 14 November 2006. Samiskt Informationscentrum Sametinget: "The Scandinavian languages are Northern Germanic languages. [...] Sami belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. Finnish, Estonian, Livonian and Hungarian belong to the same language family and are consequently related to each other."</ref> Sámi is divided into several languages or dialects.<ref>[http://www.eng.samer.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1186 www.eng.samer.se – The Sami dialects] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120081140/http://www.eng.samer.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1186 |date=20 January 2009 }} ''Sapmi: The Sami dialects''</ref> [[Consonant gradation]] is a feature in both Finnish and northern Sámi dialects, but it is not present in southern Sámi, which is considered to have a different language history. According to the Sámi Information Centre of the [[Sámi Parliament of Sweden]], southern Sámi may have originated in an earlier migration from the south into the Scandinavian Peninsula.<ref name="Sapmi" />