Plant knowledge among the remaining Pite Saami (Bidumsámegiella) speakers in Swedish Sápmi

Abstract

is article deals with the linguistic ethnobotany among the remaining Pite Saami speakers. Only 20-40 individuals nowadays speak the language. e equency of categories in the ora lexicon is proportional to the section of phytonyms and plant-related terms that were most available in the speakers ocabularies and memory. Terms surrounding trees dominate the lexicon, and they have been the easiest to remember for all speakers, as well as their uses. Flowering plants are peripheral, some plants being remembered by only one interviewed speaker. None of the interviewed speakers could remember any medical uses of owering plants or herbs.