The Sami are an indigenous people who inhabit Sápmi, their preferred name for Lapland, and adjacent areas of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland as well as the Kola Peninsula of Russia. They are speakers of the Sami languages, which are endangered.

Where are Sami people originally from?

Sami are the indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The Sami speak a language belonging to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family with Finns, Karelians, and Estonians as their closest linguistic neighbors.

Are Sami related to Vikings?

In this early period we learn that the Sami merchants first traded with the Vikings, and later they traded with the travelers from northern Europe. ... The Sami language, for instance, has hundreds of loanwords of Scandinavian or Germanic origin, as well as many from Finnish.