Lars Henrik Andreas Barruk (b. 26 February 1961) is a Sámi language consultant and teacher known for his work documenting and revitalizing the

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. Barruk is one of the few academics working with Ume Sámi, and he has taught courses on the language at

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. He served on a

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working group to develop an Ume Sami orthography together with the linguists

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, Pekka Sammallahti, and ; and he worked with older Ume Sámi speakers on a 4,300-word Ume Sámi dictionary. In 2008, Barruk was awarded the Såhkie Umeå Sami Association's Hederspris and the pan-Nordic Gollegiella Prize for his work with Ume Sámi. In 2018 he was also awarded the

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's Minority Language Prize for his efforts to save Ume Sami. Barruk is the father of the musician

Katarina Barruk Elina Maria Katarina Barruk (born 1994) is a Swedish Sámi singer, songwriter and pianist, who sings in the Ume Sámi language, now spoken by less than a dozen native speakers. She believes her songs will help to revitalize the language. In Sept ...

who writes music in Ume Sami and works as an Ume Sámi language-immersion teacher.

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