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Contemporary globalization trends might be a threat to Indigenous language revitalization efforts, or might act as catalysts that stimulate interest in learning and writing in Indigenous languages. This chapter presents a snapshot case study of young multilingual writers of North Sámi and considers the interaction of supercomplexity and the super dimensions of Sápmi on North Sámi literacy. Using illustrations taken from 126 young writers' narratives texts collected from 12 schools across the North Sámi speaking area of Sápmi in Finland, Norway, and Sweden, this chapter discusses how these young writers express in written North Sámi what they do in their lives, their understandings of their identities, and how these reflect the global and the local dimensions that they engage in on a daily basis. Based on our analysis, together with earlier research, we argue that young writers have the literacy skills necessary for meaning making, but that more possibilities for exposure to North Sámi are required, coupled with structural support from policy makers, society generally, and education opportunities, to raise the linguistics competencies for more nuanced North Sámi writing.

This squib presents an experimental pilot-study that investigates quantifier interactions in South Saami bilingual heritage speakers. The speakers of the language vary with regards to whether or not they accommodate inverse scope interpretations in doubly quantified sentences. This pattern also extends to the majority language, Swedish. If a speaker rejects inverse scope in Saami, inverse scope will be rejected in Swedish as well, and vice versa. In this squib, I argue that this variation is a consequence of simplicity of processing, rather than syntactic change, and that it is restricted to one type of bilinguals.

Cet article présente une étude expérimentale pilote qui examine les interactions des quantificateurs chez les locuteurs bilingues de langue d’héritage du same du Sud. Les locuteurs de cette langue varient selon qu’ils acceptent ou non les interprétations de portée inverse dans les phrases doublement quantifiées. Ce schéma s’étend à la langue majoritaire, le suédois. Si un locuteur rejette la portée inverse en same, il la rejettera également en suédois, et vice versa. Dans cet article, je soutiens que cette variation est une conséquence de la simplicité de traitement, au lieu de changements syntaxiques, et qu’elle se borne à un type de locuteur bilingue.

In Chapter 5 Mikael Vinka, Christian Waldmann, David Kroik and Kirk Sullivan consider the creation of corpora in the Saami language and how these can be used to support minority language education in pre-school. Using examples both from the CHILDES database and from South Saami they illustrate how corpora may support the development of culturally relevant teaching materials.