>>>>>>Hi Tore, I have a friend here in Canada. Jo Storhaug is his name. He is from Bergen and has brothers and sisters there and he needs to communicate using Norwegian Language characters in his email etc. Do the keyboards in Norway have Norwegian Language characters on the keys?
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>>>>>Grady,
>>>>>While you're waiting for the real keyboard I can send you a temporary Norvegian KB now - with or w/ Sami whatever that means:)
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>>>>Cetin
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>>>>Isn't "Suami" the Finnish language? Maybe it's something to do with that.
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>>>Suomi is Finnland in Finnish. Sami is a minority group who mostly live in the northern part of Norway, Sweden and Finnland. They have their own language which is very special, no similarity to Norwegian at all. AFAIK the Sami language is also used by the samis in Sweden and Finnland. You can read more about them here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people
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>>Aye, my first instinct was that the language was "Suomi" (I once dated a Finnish girl) but seeing "Sami" i wasn't sure. Sami - we call them Laplanders. We have a similar race here - they're called "The Welsh" (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg from the land of Cymru) :-)
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>Sami is the correct name of these people, Laplanders is derived from Lapland which is a territory in Sweden where there happen to live a lot of samis. So Laplanders are samis, but samis are not necessarily Laplanders.

OK. But I'm not aware of anybody, in GB, ever referring to Samis in Scandinavia. But Laplanders are well known.