How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language ^75.8%

BBC Future - By Erika Benke - 2/19/2026, 10:00 AM

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction. It's -8C (17.6 F) and snowing heavily, but in Inari, a village in Lapland, 350km (220 miles) above the Arctic Circle, that doesn't stop nursery children from going outside to play. Bundled up in colourful warm... more