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Originally Posted by Jonne
No no,
Lappish is some other name for Sámi, which is not same as Finnish (not either a dialect). It's a language spoken in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
And it isn't either much insulting to call someone a lap if s/he lives in lapland (northern part of Finland).
I don't actually know how they made up the name "Lappish" for Sámi  |
Thank you Jonne,
but I got more mixed, I was told by a Finnish official cultural websites that, in Finland, there are two majority languages, Swedish and Finnish, what we call Finnish here is to distinguish with Swedish, and the Finnish language is actually suomi spoken by Fin people, while a minority language Lappish is spoken by sami people, which is also called sami language.
And from the words suomi and sami, they look same in name, and in fact, the two languages are also almost same? Because they both belong to the Finno-Ugrian Language.
Aren't they?