Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).
The Sami of the Kola Peninsula разговаривали, она говорит „не приучай их по-саамски разговаривать! Там смеются. Они язык путают." [...] В: То есть, вы считали, что для ваших детей лучше будет, если они не будут говорить по-саамски. У них меньше проблем, может, будет. О: Ничего, я не против. Лучше бы учились. Попробуй, раз поругают учителя. [...] Ну, куда, надо уж бросать. Потом не стали. Повзрослей стали, все забыли. // A: In Gremiha, they laughed at my children at school. 'Lapps! You're Lapps', they'd call them. But my children didn't understand Russian. [My informant slipped up here, saying 'Lapp' instead of 'Russian'.] We relocated to [Gremiha] in 1958. My children were very small back then and didn't understand anything. Q: You already had children then? A: In 1958 my daughter went to school. Q: Did they punish her at school for speaking Sami? A: No, they didn't. But since no one needed it, they just dropped it. No one used it any more. We only spoke it at home. My cousin Valentina Jakovlevna was a teacher then. When we were speaking Sami at home, she often said: "You shouldn't teach the language to your children. They'll mix it up with Russian and others will laugh at them" [...]. Q: You mean you thought it would be best for your children not to speak Sami? To make life easier for them, perhaps? A: Essentially, I don't mind it. It would've been better if they'd learnt it. But it's not so easy if your teachers at school tell you off for speaking it. [ . ] That's why they had to drop it and never took it back up. They lost it as they grew up .167 Ms Afanas'eva and Ms Jur'eva's situations were similar, but for reasons that will be examined later in more detail both women were nonetheless able to preserve the Sami language and to pass it on to their children. 167Matrehina interview, lines 119-127, 200-204. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 107
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