Kemi Sámi
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A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sámi dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).
Extinct now for over 100 years,<ref name=":0" /> few written examples of Kemi Sámi survive. Johannes Schefferus's Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sámi Olof (Mattsson) Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot". A short vocabulary was written by the Finnish priest Jacob Fellman in 1829 after he visited the villages of Salla (Kuolajärvi until 1936) and Sompio.<ref>Äima, F, Itkonen, T.I. 1918: Jacob Fellmanin muistiinpanot Sompion ja Kuolajärven lapin murteista. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 30 p. 1-91.</ref>
Sample texts
The following translation of the Lord's Prayer still survives, recorded in the Sompio dialect:
Lord's Prayer, village of Sompio (Sodankylä)
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This is Sirma's first poem, "Guldnasas", a Sámi love story which he sang to spur on his reindeer so that they will run faster:
Kemi Sámi Swedish<ref name="col53">Björn Collinder: "Lapparna"; Stockholm; 1953</ref> English<ref name="for11">Christopher Forster (2011)Template:Complete citation needed</ref> Template:Lang
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Kulnasatj, my little cow!
It is time for us to travel,
to leave for the northern forest,
to hurry over great bogs,
to travel to the home of the admirable.
Do not detain me long, Kajgavare,
farewell, Kälvejaure!
Many thoughts are on my mind,
when I travel on Kaiga bay.
Hurry now swift one, my cow,
so that before that we may be on time
at that which Sarak sent,
the fate intended for me.
Alas, that soon I saw her,
let me look at my darling!
Kulnasatj, my little cow,
do you see her eyes now?
Swedish translation by Björn Collinder.<ref name="col53"/> English version proofread by Christopher Forster<ref name="for11"/>
This is Sirma's second poem, "Moarsi favrrot", the one he sang when he was far away from his love to prize her beauty.
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May the sun shine warm on the Red Squirrel Water! If I climb up the ladder to the top in a spruce tree
and knew I were looking at the Red Squirrel Water,
where she dwells in the heather,
I would cut down all these trees
as this have sprung up recently;
I would mince all these branches,
which bear beautiful greenery.
I let myself be driven by the light clouds,
which traveled on the road to the Red Squirrel Water.
I happily fly there with crow wings,
but I have not even got a common goldeneye's wings
to fly over there;
nor goose wings or feet
to make my way to you.
Sure, you awaited, your best days,
with your gentle eyes, with your warm heart
If it were, that you fled afar,
I would still catch up with you soon.
What is it that can be harder
than bands of tendons or chains
as tight hard, which bind the head,
distort thoughts.
The boy's sense is the wind's sense,
the young person's thoughts are long thoughts.
If I listen to them all,
then I will turn into the wrong road.
I have to choose me a sole mind
that I may find the pathway.Swedish translation by Björn Collinder<ref name="col53"/>