''Dieđut'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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published by the Nordic Sámi Institute (in

Guovdageainnu Municipality Kautokeino (; ; ; ) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages include Láhpoluoppal and Máze. The municipality is the largest by a ...

, Norway). It features articles on social sciences, linguistics, and law. It was originally established to publish research findings from the Nordic Sámi Institute, but since 2005 has been affiliated with the

Sámi University of Applied Sciences Sámi University of Applied Sciences (, ) is a university that is located in the village of Kautokeino in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It was established in 1989 and has about 200 students and 110 faculty, technical and a ...

. ''Dieđut'' (which translates from

Northern Sámi Northern Sámi or North Sámi ( ; ; ; ; ; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages. The area where Northern Sámi is spoken covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Geographic distr ...

into English as "information") began publishing in 1974, and prior to the establishment of the 1979 pan-Scandinavian

Northern Sámi orthography The orthography used to write Northern Sámi has experienced numerous changes since the first writing systems for the language were developed. Traditionally, Norway, Sweden, and Finland — the three countries where Northern Sámi is spoken &md ...

the title was spelled ''Dieđot'', using the Bergsland–Ruong orthography for Northern Sámi. Some years the journal publishes only a single issue, but in other years it has published as many as seven. Issues contain both monographs and article collections. The journal also publishes a number of articles as

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via its website. The journal is classified as "Level 1" in the

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and the Finnish index. The bulk of the articles are produced by employees of the Sámi University of Applied Sciences. Publication languages include Northern Sámi and other Sámi languages, as well as Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, English, and Russian. ''Dieđut'' is the second-most common outlet for Sámi University scholars publishing in Northern Sámi.

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