Karl Bernhard Wiklund (15 March 1868 – 1934) was a professor in

Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric () is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in the 19th centur ...

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1905–1933. His research were mainly in

Sami languages Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise ...

, and he published several studies in

Lule Sami language Lule Sámi (, , ) is a Uralic- Sámi language spoken around the Lule River in Sweden and in the northern parts of Nordland county in Norway. In Norway it is especially seen in Hamarøy Municipality (formerly Tysfjord Municipality), where Lule S ...

. He also made several studies in Sami ethnography and wrote school books in Sami, such as ''Nomadskolans läsebok''.Christer Karlsson: "En lärobok för livet: Karl Bernhard Wiklund och Nomadskolans läsebok". B.-P. Finstad, L.I. Hansen, H. Minde, Einar Niemi & H. Tjelmeland (eds): ''Stat, religion, etnisitet. Rapport fra Skibotn-konferansen''. Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie 4. Tromsö 1997. He became a member of the

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in 1930.

Bibliography

;selected * ''Lule-lappisches Wörterbuch'' (1890) Reprinted 1969 * ''Laut- und Formenlehre der Lule-lappischen Dialekten'' (1891) *
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' (1896) PhD thesis * ''Lärobok i lapska språket'' (1901) New edition 1915 * With Just Qvigstad: ''Dokumenter angaaende flytlapperne m.m., samlede efter renbeitekommissionens opdrag''. Bind 2–4. Renbeitekommissionen af 1907. Kristiania .e. Oslo1909. * ''Om lapparna i Sverige'' (1910)
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) * ''Olof Rudbeck d.ä och lapptrummorna'' (1930) * ''Lappar i nordligaste Sverige''. (1937)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiklund, K. B. Linguists of Sámi Linguists from Sweden Academic staff of Uppsala University 1868 births 1934 deaths Burials at Uppsala old cemetery Historical linguists Linguists of Indo-Uralic languages