A Sami is a member of a people living mainly in northern Scandinavia. The Sami have strong views on environmental matters. = Lapp. or Lapp Any of the descendants of ancient nomadic peoples who inhabited northern Scandinavia. They may be Paleo-Siberian or alpine peoples from central Europe. Reindeer hunting was the basis of their life from earliest times; herding was the basis of their economy until recently. They became nomadic a few centuries ago. The three Sami languages, mutually unintelligible, are sometimes considered dialects of one language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family. They number about 70,000
the language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
Sami Sami, an ethnic group in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and at Kola in Russia