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  10                 <title>Mechanic&#39;s words in five languages, English, Norwegian and Northern Sámi editions</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 4 Aug 2021 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Almost thirty years ago, some forward looking teachers at Samisk
  15 videregående skole og reindriftsskole teaching metal work and Northern
  16 Sámi, decided to create a list of words used in Northern Sámi metal
  17 work.  After almost ten years this resulted in a dictionary database,
  18 published as the book
  19 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ovttas.no/nb/girji_mekanikerord&quot;&gt;Mekanihkkársánit :
  20 Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen alan sanasto = Mechanic&#39;s words&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in
  21 1999.  The
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skuvla.info/skolehist/sveinl-n.htm&quot;&gt;story of this
  23 work&lt;/a&gt; is available from the pen of Svein Lund, one of the leading
  24 actors behind this effort.  They even got the dictionary approved by
  25 the Sámi Language Council as the recommended metal work words to use.&lt;/p&gt;
  26
  27 &lt;p&gt;Fast forward twenty years, I came across this work when I recently
  28 became interested in metal work, and started watching educational and
  29 funny videos on the topic, like the ones from
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;https://yewtu.be/channel/UCKLIIdKEpjAnn8E76KP7sQg&quot;&gt;mrpete222&lt;/a&gt;
  31 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://yewtu.be/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ&quot;&gt;This
  32 Old Tony&lt;/a&gt;.  But they all talk English, but I wanted to know what
  33 the tools and techniques they used were called in Norwegian.  Trying
  34 to track down a good dictionary from English to Norwegian, after much
  35 searching, I came across the database of words created
  36 almost thirty years ago, with translations into English, Norwegian,
  37 Northern Sámi, Swedish and Finnish.  This gave me a lot of the
  38 Norwegian phrases I had been looking for.  To make it easier for the
  39 next person trying to track down a good Norwegian dictionary for the
  40 metal worker, and because I knew the person behind the database from
  41 my Skolelinux / Debian Edu days, I decided to ask if the database
  42 could be released to the public without any usage limitations, in
  43 other words as a Creative Commons licensed data set.  And happily,
  44 after consulting with the Sámi Parliament of Norway, the database is
  45 now available with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
  46 license from
  47 &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/petterreinholdtsen/mekanikerord&quot;&gt;my gitlab
  48 repository&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  49
  50 &lt;p&gt;The dictionary entries look slightly different, depending on the
  51 language in focus.  This is the same entry in the different editions.
  52
  53 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;English&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  54
  55 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  56 &lt;dl&gt;
  57     &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lathe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  58
  59     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;dreiebenk (nb) várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka, vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka (se) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  60
  61 &lt;/dl&gt;
  62 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Norwegian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  65
  66 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  67 &lt;dl&gt;
  68     &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dreiebenk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  69
  70     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;lathe (en) várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka,
  71     vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka (se) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  72
  73     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(nb): sponskjærande bearbeidingsmaskin der ein med
  74     skjæreverktøy lausgjør spon frå eit roterande
  75     arbetsstykke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  76
  77 &lt;/dl&gt;
  78 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  79
  80 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Northern Sámi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  81
  82 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  83 &lt;dl&gt;
  84     &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;várve, várvenbea&amp;#331;ka, jorahanbea&amp;#331;ka, vátnanbea&amp;#331;ka&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
  85
  86     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;dreiebenk (nb) lathe (en) svarv (sv) sorvi (fi) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  87
  88     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(se): ma&amp;#353;iidna mainna &amp;#269;uohppá vuolahasaid jorri
  89       bargoávdnasis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  90
  91     &lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;(nb): sponskjærande bearbeidingsmaskin der ein med
  92     skjæreverktøy lausgjør spon frå eit roterande
  93     arbetsstykke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
  94
  95 &lt;dl&gt;
  96 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  97
  98 &lt;p&gt;The database included term description in both Norwegian and
  99 Northern Sámi, but not English.  Because of this, the Northern Sámi
 100 edition include both descriptions, the Norwegian edition include the
 101 Norwegian description and the English edition lack a descripiton.&lt;/p&gt;
 102
 103 &lt;p&gt;Once the database was available without any usage restrictions, and
 104 armed with my experience in publishing books, I decided to publish a
 105 Norwegian/English dictionary as a book using the database, to make the
 106 data set available also on paper and as an ebook.  Further into the
 107 project, it occurred to me that I could just as easily make an English
 108 dictionary, and talking to Svein and concluding that it was within
 109 reach, I decided to make a Northern Sámi dictionary too.&lt;/p&gt;
 110
 111 &lt;p&gt;Thus I suddenly find myself publishing a Northern Sámi dictionary,
 112 even though I do not understand the language myself.  I hope it will
 113 be well received, and can help revive the impressive work done almost
 114 thirty years ago to document the vocabulary of metal workers.  If I
 115 get some help, I might even extend it with some of the words I find
 116 missing, like collet, rotary broach, carbide, knurler, arbor press and
 117 others.  But the first edition build from a lightly edited version of
 118 the original database, with no new entries added.  If you would like
 119 to check it out, visit
 120 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/&quot;&gt;my list of published
 121 books&lt;/a&gt; and consider
 122 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Petter+Reinholdtsen&quot;&gt;buying
 123 a paper or ebook copy from lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;.  The paper edition is only
 124 available in hardcover to increase its durability in the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
 125
 126 &lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report that in the process, and thanks to help
 127 from both Svein Lund and Børre Gaup who understand the language, the
 128 docbook tools I use to create books, dblatex and docbook-xsl, now
 129 include support for Northern Sámi.  Before I started, these lacked the
 130 needed locale settings for this language, but now the patches are
 131 included upstream.&lt;/p&gt;
 132
 133 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 134 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 135 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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