The expedition "Clean Arctic - Vostok-77" has found 12 text in the Sami language
15:12, 13 September
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TASS says, that three search parties of the expedition “Clean Arctic – Vostok-77” have found 12 texts in the Sami language in the Murmansk region.
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"Clean Arctic - Vostok-77" is the largest scientific expedition in terms of the number of participants in the history of research in the North. The study and preservation of rare Northen languages will become one of the tasks of the expedition. About 700 participants of the expedition and voluntiers of the Russian Geographical Society will conduct over 200 studies on routes with a length of 12 thousand km for a year.
One of the tasks of the Moscow Arctic Library is to preserve the Northern languages, including those that are on the verge of extinction. Together with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the library is engaged in documenting and digitizing the content discovered during the expedition.
As a part of the annual expedition, scientists explore the dialects and writing of the indigenous peoples of the North. According to linguists, the Sami have about 180 words to tell about the state of the snow, and several hundred formulations to describe the reindeer.
