He has also worked as a secretary to the bishop (Diocesan vicar) and held various positions as an educator and translator of the Bible into Sami languages.
Languages of India | Sami people | Indo-European languages | Celtic languages | Slavic languages | Algonquian languages | Turkic languages | Bantu languages | Romance languages | Sami | Berber languages | Australian Aboriginal languages | Germanic languages | Goidelic languages | Arawakan languages | North Germanic languages | Indigenous languages of the Americas | Austroasiatic languages | Indo-Aryan languages | Polynesian languages | Northwest Caucasian languages | Munda languages | Mongolic languages | French-based creole languages | Songhay languages | Semitic languages | Dené–Yeniseian languages | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages | Visayan languages | Tupian languages |
On the basis of comparative linguistics, it has been suggested that the separation of the Finnic and the Sami languages took place during the 2nd millennium BC, and that the proto-Uralic roots of the entire language group date from about the 6th to the 8th millennium BC.