– It feels great to stand here with Nelly. Before we started the podcast, she said she wasn’t good enough to speak Sami. But there are so many people who look up to what Nelly does. She steps out of her comfort zone every week to speak in a language she should have had as her mother tongue. That’s what Jonna Dunfjeld-Mølnvik says. The applause was overwhelming when she and colleague Nelly Engström received news Sápmi’s annual language award for the podcast “Hævvi”, in which they are both presenters. “Hævvi” is now in its third season. Photo: Vegard Blakstad – I have no words now. I have worked very hard to take back my own language. That’s why this is so important to me. It is very nice to receive recognition that you are doing a good job, says Nelly Engström. The girls are the youngest ever to receive this award. – The very well-deserved Director of news Sápmi, Johan Ailo Kalstad, presented the language award at news Tyholt in Trondheim today. – It is very well deserved. They get the prize because they renew the language. They reach out to many Sami speakers and they help to motivate the use of the Southern Sami language, says Kalstad after the award ceremony. “Hævvi” is the world’s first visual South Sami podcast, which is also subtitled in Norwegian. In addition, it has also been broadcast on Swedish Radio. Read the full rationale here A single snowflake is fragile, but several gathered together will have greater power. This is also the case with language, when you actively work for and help each other to acquire a larger and broader vocabulary, you are better able to play more with the language. And create new ways of saying things. It helps to enrich the language and forms a good basis for being able to excite, surprise and perhaps irritate with good language turns and word usage. The road to a good language can be tortuous and long, but it can be achieved by actively working towards this goal. And with this year’s language award, news Sápmi will highlight working purposefully with the development and strengthening of one’s language use and thus also being able to be a good language role model for others. The language award goes this year to presenters of the Southern Sami podcast Hævvi, Jonna and Nelly. Big fan In April last year, the news came that news would launch its first podcast in Southern Sami with a young perspective. The presenters Jonna Dunfjeld-Mølnvik from Snåsa and Nelly Engström from Vilhelmina in Sweden are responsible for much of the production. “Hævvi” means “of course” in Southern Sami. Jonna Dunfjeld-Mølnvik and Nelly Engström were awarded the prize by director of news Sápmi, Johan Ailo Kalstad. Photo: Christian Aras Shuany / news – We talk about a lot that involves us. Things from our own lives that we think a lot about, or have different opinions about. But at the same time, we have many listeners who send in their own thoughts, opinions and stories, which means we can sit and reflect on that too, says Dunfjeld-Mølnvik. And the Sapmi director is a fan. – I think it’s a hugely entertaining podcast. It takes up themes that are perhaps a little surprising from a Sami point of view. And everything is in Sami. I’m a big fan, concludes Kalstad.
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news Sápmi awards the language award to the podcast “Hævvi” – news Trøndelag – Local news, TV and radio
