Polmak
Polmak, Buolbmát, or Pulmanki is a village in Tana Municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. The village is located on the south bank of the river Tana, just east of the border with Finland (and the northernmost point of Finland). The village is the site of the Polmak Church.
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The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Polmak which existed from 1903 until its dissolution in 1964. Situated in the Eastern Finnmark dialect area of Northern Sami, where the language features distinct phonological traits such as a three-way vowel contrast between /æ/, /a/, and /ɑ/ (with /ɑ/ for stressed ⟨a⟩ and /a/ or /æ/ for ⟨á⟩), lengthening of stressed vowels before quantity 1 or 2 consonants, and shortening of quantity 3 consonants, making gradation primarily a matter of vowel length rather than consonant length. These Eastern Finnmark varieties also exhibit umlaut (fronting of vowels before a following front vowel) and lenition of intervocalic /b/ to /v/ and /ɡ/ to /ɣ/ or /j/. The local Kven dialect, Pulmanki, reflects Finnish influences typical of the Meänkieli continuum in the Torne Valley region.
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Polmak is a place recorded by the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Polmak as an inhabited place. The authority records of the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names record Troms og Finnmark as the administrative unit of Polmak.
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• Settlement Type — Village • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Norway • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Northern Norway • Subdivision Type2 — County • Subdivision Name2 — Troms • Subdivision Type3 — District • Subdivision Name3 — Øst-Finnmark • Subdivision Type4 — Municipality • Subdivision Name4 — Tana Municipality • Timezone1 — CET • Utc Offset1 — +01:00 • Timezone1 Dst — CEST • Utc Offset1 Dst — +02:00 • Postal Code Type — Post Code • Postal Code — 9845 Tana • Elevation M — 19
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Name
The name is a Norwegian version of the Northern Sami form of the name, Buolbmát. The meaning is unknown.
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