Ole Henrik Magga

Ole Henrik Magga (born 12 August 1947) is a Sámi linguist, professor and politician from Kautokeino Municipality, Norway.

His master's thesis at the University of Oslo, "Lokative læt-setninger i samisk" (Locative "to be" sentences in Sámi), discussed the structure of existential and habitive sentences, whose structures in many of the Uralic languages are similar to each other.

His doctoral dissertation in 1986 discussed the structure of Sámi verbal phrases, in particular, the interaction between modal verbs and infinitives.

Magga became professor of Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Oslo in 1997, after Knut Bergsland, but relinquished his post to work as professor of Sámi Linguistics at the Sámi University College in Kautokeino.

Magga was a delegate to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) when it was founded in Canada in 1975.