Bilde av Tynnøl, Trond
Bilde av Tynnøl, Trond
Programmer for Saami lexicography Department of Language and Culture trond.tynnol@uit.no

Trond Tynnøl


Job description

I work as a programmer for Center for Saami lexicography which is being built up at UiT in connection to Giellatekno. I have home office, so please contact me though e-mail, Teams, Zulip or phone.

Previously I have taught North Saami from beginner level as a University College teacher (autumn 2025 and spring 2026) and hosted a course in Skolt Saami language and culture (SAM-1300 summer 2026).

Previously I have worked as a programmer and computer linguist at Giellatekno. I mainly worked with computational grammatical analysis of Kildin Saami, with a main goal of creating a spell checker, in addition to generating inflection paradigms and analyzing texts.

Work areas

Programmer


Teaching

Autumn 2025:

SAM-1040 North Sami as from beginners level: Module 1
SAM-1041 North Sami as from beginners level: Module 2
SAM-1042 North Sami as from beginners level: Module 3

Spring 2026:

SAM-1035 Samisk fra begynnernivå: Lesing og skriftlig kommunikasjon
SAM-1036 Nordsamisk fra begynnernivå: Innføringskurs 2

Summer 2026:

SAM-1300 Nordkurs: Introduction to Skolt Saami language and culture


CV

Bachelor's in North Sami language and literature (2024)

Bachelor's in Computer Science (2023)