Norwegian Opera Software, supplier of the world's third most popular internet browser, has released a version of its browser in the Sami language. This should help the Sami in their cultural recovery from centuries of assimilationist and repressive policies in northern Scandinavia and Russia - in some places, in the first half of the twentieth century, speaking Sami was forbidden. Opera's chief executive explained that the company wants “to provide that little extra help that smaller linguistic groups need to prosper as a cultural entity in an electronic information age.” The browser was translated into Northern Sami, the most common of the many dialects of the language.
