Lapland

Name

Sápmi is the name in the Northern Sami language and usually used in official context to denote Sami rights, while the name Lapland is the common English spelling of the Swedish Lappland. The name in Finnish is Lappi and in Norwegian Sameland, however the most northern

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Norwegian county is named Finnmark, "the Finnish region". (Sápmi includes all cross-country lands.) The name traditionally used in Latin is Fenni, but since the 13th century, Laponia has replaced this word. The choice of words for the people and language is becoming a matter of political correctness, but provinces and counties still carry the old ("lap") names. The Russian language uses the only ????????? ("Lappland") form.

Related Topics:
Finnmark - Latin - Political correctness - Russian language

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