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@CountZero I was born here, but Norway's ethnic composition is more complex than it appears from the outside. There are at least 3 peoples, of Norse/Germanic, Finnish/Baltic and Sami/Lappish stock. Being from the northern part of the country, there are many people of Finnish and Sami heritage in my family tree, with a few people of Norse heritage mixed in there.
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@CountZero In my family, three languages are spoken: Norwegian, Sami and Finnish. The non-Germanic peoples of Norway faced oppression not unlike that of the Native Americans, but without the violent conflict. Even as late as the 1980s, being a Sami wasn't an asset, so my parents, having no desire to embrace their heritage, decided to not teach me their mother tongues.
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@CountZero My father's mother tongue was Finnish, my mother's was Sami. My father can speak some Sami. They were both fluent in Norwegian, having picked it up from school and Norwegian speakers in the area. My father also speaks German and English, meaning he's fluent in 5 languages.
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