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Ole Henrik Magga
Ole Henrik Magga (born August 12, 1947) is a Sámi linguist and politician from Kautokeino, Norway.
As a linguist.
As a linguist, Ole Henrik Magga is best known for his work on syntax. His master's thesis at the University of Oslo, "Lokative læt-setninger i samisk" ("Locative "to be" sentences in Sámi"), discussed the structure of existential and habitive sentences, whose structures in many of the Uralic languages are similar to each other
Lajla Mattsson Magga
Lajla Mattsson Magga (born 4 November 1942) is a Southern Sami teacher, children's writer and lexicographer. Married to fellow Sami linguist Ole Henrik Magga (born 1947), she lives in Kautokeino in the far northern Norwegian county of Finnmark.
Biography.
Born in Kali in central Sweden's Åre Municipality, Magga is the daughter of the reindeer herder Gustaf Edvard Mattson (1897–1973) and Elin Margareta Larsson (1887–1973), also a reindeer herder. A qualified teacher, she attended the University