# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-sammallahti
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:59:57.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-sammallahti"
name: "Pekka Sammallahti"
slug: "pekka-sammallahti"
description: "Pekka Lars Kalervo Sammallahti is a professor of Sámi languages at the Giellagas Institute at the University of Oulu. A prolific writer, he has published more than 100 books and articles related to Sápmi and the various Sámi languages. Sammallahti has also been a driving force in the work done to create official written languages for a number of Sámi languages."
tagline: "Finnish linguist, professor emeritus"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pekka_sammallahti.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.470914666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "佩卡·萨马拉赫蒂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پيكا سامالاهتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Sammallahti"
    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8F%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
    title: "ペッカ・サンマッラハティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Sammallahti"
    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Sammallahti"
    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Sammallahti"
    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Sammallahti"
    title: "Pekka Sammallahti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3236738"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump