Kainuu Sami

Kainuu Sami is an extinct Sámi language that was once spoken in Kainuu. It became extinct in the 18th century when the Kainuu Sámi likely assimilated to the culture of the growing Finnish population. Kainuu Sámi belonged to the Eastern Sámi language group.^{[citation needed]}

The original inhabitants of Kainuu were Sámi hunter-fishers. In the 17th century, the Governor General of Finland Per Brahe fostered the population growth of Kainuu by giving a ten-year tax exemption to settlers. It was considered necessary at the time by Finnish authorities to populate Kainuu with Finnish farmers because control over the area was threatened from the east by Russians. Those who settled in Kainuu were mainly from Savonia, which caused the Kainuu dialect of Finnish to very closely resemble the Savo dialect.

References

0.00 (0 votes)