The earliest written recording of Kola SámiGenetz, 1895. stems from Stephen Borroughs – an English explorer that sailed around the Kola Peninsula in 1557 and recorded a list of 95 words spoken by the local Sámi people.Abercromby, 1895. They were first published by the English geographer Richard Hakluyt in 1619.Hakluyt, 1619.
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Genetz, A. (1895). Bemerkungen zum Obigen [Referring to Abercromby, 1895.]. In Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja, vol. 13, pp. 8–10. The Finno-Ugrian Society.
Hakluyt, R. (1619). The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation made by Sea or over Land &c. G. Bishop.