Talk:Northern Sámi

I am writing the grammar section of Northern Sami. Native speakers, please check my spelling of Sami words and correct possible grammatical errors. In future I am planning to add adjectives, tenses, moods, voices etc. Arteum

There are no possessive pronouns in Northern Sami. The listed ones are genitive forms of the personal pronouns. --Hippophaë 17:50, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I agree, Hippophaë, but I think it is understood that a possessive pronoun by definition is a personal pronoun in the genetive case. Arteum

Possessive pronouns or personal pronouns in genitive are just differences in terms. Northern Sami does have, however, "posessive suffixes" for nouns, if it helps at all. I'd help out the effort by writing more here on grammar, but I have to learn decent wiki-coding skills first. ;) --Alcarilinque 09:36, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

No, it's not a difference of terms. Possessive pronouns are different pronouns from the normal pronouns, while pronouns in the genitive are regularly agglutinated. Consider "I — my", "mu- — mu". --Vuo 14:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Being a native Finnish speaker, I disagreed with this: "and as Ŋ (engma) is not just an allophone of N as in Finnish, it needs a separate letter." Sometimes it's an allophone, but sometimes it's a different phoneme in Finnish, as well. "langan" /lɑŋŋɑn/ = wire (genitive case); "lannan" /lɑnnɑn/ = dung (genitive case). So I edited that part a little. Now it sounds stupid, so maybe someone is interested in writing it in fluent English. -anonymous