Ante Aikio


Ante Aikio is a Finnish-Sami linguist who has been a professor of Sámi languages in Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Koutokeino, Norway since 2015. Prior to this he has been a professor of Sámi language at the Giellagas Institute at the University of Oulu in Finland. In 2009, Aikio also published a dissertation on Sámi loans in Finnish. In addition, Aikio has widely studied the history and etymology of the Uralic languages and the Sámi ethnolinguistic past.