Sofia Jannok - Áššogáttis

[hollidaylevi]

i dont even know what she is sayin but it rules...

[JaY19940623jAy]

Ihre Stimme einfach wunderschön *-*

[blito1mx]

Beautiful voice, beautiful girl. I don't understand a word but it doesn't matter! Greetings from Mexico

[fnesb]

Her voice is really one of a kind, and the music itself is unique all together and stirs my soul. Great stuff. I too never even heard of her til a few days ago and being a vocalist I was taken. I got here via searching for cultural info about Sami peoples. What a voice they have in Sofia!

[DaisyDutches]

This is some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard! And I had never even heard of the Sami people until recently! I'm just an American on the Pacific coast. But goodness is it ever beautiful! She was blessed with a voice! If the northern lights could sing, it would sound like this I believe!

[xavijohn]

Saami-American here from North Dakota USA. Ms. Jannok is good, very good. Thanks and a salute to her for her work.

[MyLalinea]

it sounds beautifull i.

[pixiemotion]

@Radamsa pretty sure it's northern sámi..

[WXIWXI]

Vist har Sofia en underbar röst!. Hoppas få höra mer från henne i framtiden också!. Kram Thomas

(SM6WXI)

[Skjule]

This is brill!

[51431478]

@Radamsa Lots of Sami people live in Russia too. Ask swedes from up north, they know that.

[nennmichtoast]

@Radamsa it's nothern sami.

[AuroraOnVenice]

I love Sami culture. Greeting from Venice, Italy

[maidoodesu]

nice ! で３すね.

[Lentoporo]

@LexaNeko I bet for you the world stops a bit north from Uppsala, right? :D

[yourblondangel]

@Radamsa

davvisámigiella/northern saami, main dialect used throughout sápmi in the sámi parliament

[lauoks]

Definitely not South Sámi, not even Lule Sámi, though you would expect that on the basis of the places she sings about. She must have her roots in the forcibly moved (tvångsflyttad) part of the Swedish North Sámi. Her diallect is from the Kautokeino-Karesuando area; still more purely northern than the diallect spoken in Kiruna.

[heliburton]

@lauoks That's very interesting! Can you tell me some of those typically northern features? Thanks!

[lauoks]

@heliburton: Kiruna Sámi often add an extra vowel to the end of the word, which changes the rhytm. When a Kiruna guy pointed out an approaching rain shower (arvi oakti), he pronounced it "ar-vie oak-tie". I first did not understand as I had never heard Sámi spoken like that. No big deal when you get used, but distinction anyway.

[lauoks]

@heliburton: sorry - I realize I reversed your question and told what features of Kiruna Sámi sound southern for me. I cannot answer the questiomn as asked; in my ears Sofia's Sámi is simply "accent free". The problem is universal, never met anyone able to describe his/her own accent. That's just "the normal way" for us all.

[heliburton]

@heliburton Thanks a lot! I found a reference to it now as well in Sammallahti's The Saami Languages (p. 19), where he compares Girjjis (Girjjis and Bastečearru) aski 'lap' and viessu 'house' to Čohkkiras/Gárasavvon askie and viessuo; supposedly the last dialect group is closer to Lule Saami because of lexical similarities. Would you agree? And the Gällivare dialect is Lule Saami, though it's on the North/Lule border, right? Sorry for asking so much! And thanks a lot again!

[lauoks]

@heliburton: I am no linguist, but I hear a gradient from Gárasavvon (Karesuando) - Čohkeras (Kiruna) Váhččir (Gällivare) Dálvadas (Jokkmok) where Lule Sámi features gradually increase. Gárasavvon is in my ears still 100% North Sámi The surprising thing is that Sofia sings about places between Váhččir and Dálvadas in accent-free North Sámi. The forcibly moved groups have obviously not been influenced by the local forms of the Sámi language.

[heliburton]

@lauoks I didn't know that about Váhčir. But I guess North Saami influence on Lule is anyway strong. Thanks very much again!

[thordemann1]

@Radamsa

Sørsamisk ;)

[lauoks]

She sings in North Sámi, without the slightest southern accent, which is strange as she lives so far in south (Váhččir = Gällivare) and sings about places still further down (Vuolvojávri, Arvasduottar, Durpon, Bigas...). I could not even have guessed that she is from Sweden if she did not use so many Finnish words (typical for Swedish Sámi).

[ChipzCute]

Can somebody provide some lyrics?! I absolutely adore the song!

[lauoks]

Buy the CD and you get lyrics to all songs both in English and in Sámi, spelled with the modern system, which is completely phonetical and very similar to the spelling of other East European languages (e.g. Serbo-Croatian, Czech)

[Lilja1915]

Where can I find the lyrics of this song ?

[bimmer57]

har varit mycket uppe å kört MC i trakterna runt nordligaste Sverige/norge /finland

vilken natur och denna tystnad !

härligt !

träffade min första varg i Pello !

[bimmer57]

hräligt språk -även om jag inte fattar nått !

skön melodi i språket!!

nå man kanske kan lära sig en dag !!

or not ;-)

[llewi]

Vacker ^^.

[JaimeJovanka]

Great Sofia! I watch the concert in my town when she was on tour over the Balkans... I adore her music... Best wishes to her and her band!

[Slikken]

Cappa nieida, cappa jietna, cappa lavlla.. :)

[rabbalaba]

Norge for the win <3

[karpov89]

But she is Swedish, from Gällivare.

[rabbalaba]

yeah i know... i was just telling everybody what a great country Norway is

[karpov89]

Well that is true, but Sweden is of course the greatest.

[rabbalaba]

no, i dont think Sweden is better than Norway because we have the great nature and all that shit...i dont care about that so i think i will agree that Sweden is better than Norway ^^ in some ways :P

[karpov89]

Visst det är väldigt vacker natur i Norge men det är det i Sverige också..men det finns väl ingen anledning att bråka om det...varför skriver vi på engelska förresten om du är från Norge?

[rabbalaba]

hehehe vi bråker da ikke, vi snakker bare om Sverige og Norge :P tenkte egentlig ikke over at vi snakket på engelsk XD

[Kudiz]

sweden norway and finland is essentially the same 'cept in language, är inte det sant?

[rabbalaba]

no!

[Heikki1]

@Kudiz stemmer det ja;)

[juanpatricio01]

I think the bass player is gorgeous ;-)

[PerJooonas]

The Sami language is also spoken in the Kola peninsulas in Russia. Sofia Jannok talking and singing in Northern Sami "Dávvi sámegiella" That is the most widely spoken dialect.

[Lappoid123]

North-Saami is the most widely spoken because its some of the last remaining and most isolated, Kola Saami languages is quickly dissappearing, one have already gone extinct and soon more will follow, the Sea Saami dialects of north Saami is almost excint too.

[Turtleposer]

Simply amazing. I never heard of her until now. She's a fav.

[kloiten]

It's so cool how Sofia takes the Sámi language and joiking and puts it into "modern" (no sarcasm there) songs like this and her other songs.

No doubt about it: five stars!

[lost0in0time]

it's so beautiful song! I like Sofia very much since I heard 'Liekkas'. :)

[dsro71]

Vackert, vackert. Ses på Kirunafestivalen.

[TawnyStudLeffler]

såg henne också där :)

[PerJooonas]

Son gál lea nu čeahppi.

Hon är så duktig. GO SOFIA!!!

[andremeert]

Divine!

[notblondeswede]

Så jävla underbart.

[kultimat]

I heard her for the first time yesterday. Today I just want to hear more. Thank you for making the day, Sofia Jannok. And thank you, dear fellow for posting this for us. :)

[Radamsa]

You're welcome :)

[huterrob]

Helt suveränt ju mer man lyssnar på samiskan så blir man ju mer och mer frälst ju ..

[blomfilm]

Jättevackert! Jag kommer från Storbritannien, och jag började att lära mig svenska i tre år sedan... nu vill jag lära mig lite samiska faktiskt! :P

Tack för videon!

[Radamsa]

Var så god - och va bra din svenska är! :)

[nikwalnikwal]

@blomfilm "i tre år..." eller ännu bättre "för tre år sedan" ;-) coolt , ja det vore lite kul att lära sig faktiskt, iofs behöver man nog ha kontakter där uppe då...

[irvin4you]

Hei sinulla on kaunis ääni, tervehdys Norjasta.

[Radamsa]

Beklager, men jeg er ikke Sofia, og jeg tror att hon ikke kan finska.. for hon er ju svensk :P

[MadamePlantier]

This is by far the best version I've heard of this song! Absolutly Beautiful!

[Ajana5]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting!!! =)

[Radamsa]

Bitte :)

[2Fell]

Radamsa! Hihi, Trollvintern...

[Radamsa]

Precis ;)

[sunsilk87]

så vackert