/Engelsk version av nyhet jag meddelat tidigare, gjord för utrikiska läsare.
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Disney's coming "Frozen 2" will be dubbed into Sami language! It's an animated
fantasy film for children, and such movies are often dubbed in Sweden, because
most children can't read subtitles.
https://www.animationmagazine.net/features/frozen-2-will-get-sami-language-version/
"Frozen 2" is said ro be based on Sami culture. (I haven't seen it or the
first "Frozen" film.)
The traditionally reindeer herding Sami people are, sort of, the Indians of
Scandinavia. They are some 65 000-100 000 - the span due to how to define
belonging to the group - shared between Sweden, Norway and Finland (plus a
couple of thousand in Russia) in the North.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sámi_people Today most are integrated into the ;
regular society but about 6 500 of the Sami are still into reindeer herding.
Smoked reindeer meat is considered a delicatesse and can usually be found in
supermarkets all over Sweden, and some is also exported. (Sorry, all of you who
are thinking of Santa's reindeers... We eat them.)
One snag with dubbing this film is that there are several Sami dialects (a
Finno-Ugric branch on the language tree, not related to Indo-European
languages) not always intelligible bewteen speakers, but North Sami is the
biggest dialect so I supposed that's what they'll use. Some Sami languages are
near extinction, now spoken by just 20 people... See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sámi_languages
It's the first time I think a major film is dubbed into Sami! (But there have
been regular feature films shot in Sami before.)
As I google around I stumble upon the debate around the "Frozen" films.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/disneys-frozen-whitewashing-controversy
A "debate /that/ has come to include accusations against Disney of
"whitewashing" the Sámi, the indigenous people of Scandinavia. The controversy
began on Tumblr, and is largely driven by social justice bloggers who accuse
the movie of racism, and fans of the film who are outraged by these
accusations."
I haven't dug deeper into this, but anyone interested can probably find more
info.
A trailer for "Frozen 2":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbOrz72EzNU
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_2
The Sami Flag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sámi_flag
The Swedish Sami Parliament:
https://www.sametinget.se/english
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