Place names and visible in – altaposten.no
The Sami Parliament is accused of invisible Kven/Norwegian Finnish culture by opposing the determination of Kven/Norwegian Finnish place names where no inherited local use cannot be documented. This is a fundamental understanding of error.
The Sami Council is committed to preserving and protecting place names as a cultural heritage, as the Place Name Act says in the purpose provision. Place names are expressions of local traditions, identity and belonging.
When the Sami Parliament’s place name service has taken up the Language Council’s practice of recommending place names without documented local use, it is precisely to protect the place names, and it applies as much Kven/Norwegian Finnish place names as Sami place names.
If there is no documented local use over a long period of time that is used for naming, it allows other people’s use from other areas to displace the place name as a cultural heritage. It is the story of Norwegian, and we will not go there.
Of course, it also includes what the landscape people have used and lived in. It is therefore a constructed issue that Sami place names in, for example, in, for example, unmatched or pit Sami cannot be determined because the research has meant that the language users have become fewer.
