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Northern or North Sami (davvisámegiella; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway Sweden and Finland. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15000 and 25000. About 2000 of these live in Finland and between 5000 and 6000 in Sweden.