Sami is a group of
Uralic languages spoken by the
Sami people in
Northern Europe (in parts of northern
Finland,
Norway,
Sweden and extreme northwestern
Russia). There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages or dialects. Several names are used for the Sami languages:
Saami,
Sámi,
Saame,
Samic,
Saamic, as well as the
exonyms Lappish and
Lappic. The last two, along with the term
Lapp, are now often considered
derogatory (
Lapp in Swedish means
patch or
rag).