The Skolt of the Year Award is an annual award founded in 2007. It is awarded to people, groups, organizations, and institutions individually or collectively in recognition of their outstanding linguistic and cultural contributions for the good of the Skolt community. In spite of its name, it is not a requirement that the recipient be a Skolt. The award is administered and voted on by the Skolt Sámi Language and Culture Association Saaʹmi Nueʹtt and the Skolt community council.
The archive of the Skolt Sámi village of Suõʹnnjel that the National Archives of Finland and the Finnish Sámi Archives nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register for which they won the Skolt of the Year Award in 2015. The document is a replica; the case is the original case.
Skolt Sámi is a Uralic, Sámi language that is spoken by the Skolts, with approximately 300 speakers in Finland, mainly in Sevettijärvi and approximately 20–30 speakers of the Njuõʹttjäuʹrr (Notozero) dialect in an area surrounding Lake Lovozero in Russia. In Norway, there are fewer than 15 that can speak Skolt Sámi ; furthermore, the language is largely spoken in the Neiden area. It is written using a modified Roman orthography which was made official in 1973.
Road sign for the Äʹvv Skolt Sámi Museum [no] in Neiden, Norway. Starting at the top, the lines are in Norwegian, Skolt Sámi, and Finnish.
A quadrilingual street sign in Inari in (from top to bottom) Finnish, Northern Saami, Inari Saami, and Skolt Saami. Inari is the only municipality in Finland with 4 official languages.
The village workshop in Sevettijärvi
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