In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe grass ...
Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction. It's -8C (17.6 F) and snowing heavily, but in Inari, a village in ...