Ante Aikio (; born 1977) is a Finnish linguist of
Sámi
Acronyms
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origin who has been a professor of
Sámi languages
The Sámi languages ( ), also rendered in English language, English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwest ...
at the
Sámi University of Applied Sciences
Sámi University of Applied Sciences (, ) is a university that is located in the village of Kautokeino in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It was established in 1989 and has about 200 students and 110 faculty, technical and a ...
in
Kautokeino
Kautokeino () may refer to:
Places
*Kautokeino Municipality (also known as: ), a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
*Kautokeino (village)
, , or is the administrative centre of Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The vill ...
,
Norway
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since 2015. Prior to this he served as a professor of Sámi language at the Giellagas Institute at the
University of Oulu
The University of Oulu () is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 14,200 students and 3,800 staff. 21 International Master's Programmes are offer ...
in
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
.
In 2009, Aikio published his dissertation on Sámi
loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing. Borrowing is a metaphorical term t ...
s in Finnish. In addition, Aikio has widely studied the history and etymology of the
Uralic languages
The Uralic languages ( ), sometimes called the Uralian languages ( ), are spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers ab ...
and the Sámi
ethnolinguistic
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language or group of languages and the cultural practices of the people who speak those languages.
It exa ...
past.
Important publications
*Ante Aikio. ''An essay on substrate studies and the origin of Saami'', in ''Etymologie, Entlehnungen und Entwicklungen: Festschrift für Jorma Koivulehto zum 70. Geburtstag'', Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, Helsinki, 2004.
*Jussi Ylikoski & Ante Aikio (ed.) ''Sámit, sánit, sátnehámit – riepmoc̆ála Pekka Sammallahtii miessemánu 21. beaivve 2007'', Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsinki, 2007.
*Ante Aikio. ''The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian'', Oulun yliopisto, Oulu, 2009
Academia.edu*Ante Aikio. ''"An essay on Saami ethnolinguistic prehistory"'', A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe, in ''Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne'' Vol. 266, pp. 63–117, 2012
PDF*Ante Aikio. ''"Proto-Uralic"'', in Bakró-Nagy, Marianne;
Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena (eds.). Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 46, 50–52, 2019
Academia.edu
References
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21st-century linguists
Living people
1977 births
Academic staff of the Sámi University of Applied Sciences
Sámi linguists
Finnish emigrants to Norway
Finnish Sámi people
Linguists of Sámi
Finnish Sámi academics
Finnish academics