Sa'ami has apparantly absorbed numerous Uralic-Altaic words from the Finno-Ughric subset of that language group. On the other hand the Sa'ami languages have the same linguistic peculiarities that differentate the Dravidian languages from others with similar word-building techniques.
Turns out a fellow at Indiana University takes credit for having demonstrated that Sa'ami, Sumerian and an Indian language in California are "cognates".
Think of it this way ~ the Dravidian language group is very old. It is located primarily in Southern India. During the Ice Age some people speaking a Dravidian language migrated to the NW, along the coast, to the land of Dilmon. From that point they moved inland along the Euphrates upstream to Assyria, and from there through Ukraine and Russia to the Baltic area. (There is a water route all the way from the Black Sea to the Baltic used by the Greeks, and later by the Vikings.)
When Sumerian was first discovered and was being translated, a bunch of crackpots lept to the conclusion that since the Sumerians discussed glaciers that they must have originated in Scandinavia!
They appear to have had the right idea, but got it backwards!
Interesting. I would not think Sumerians are from Scandanavia. I have heard they might be from Indonesia. I have noticed ziggarat designs are same throughout the world. I have read that Dravidians have a legend that they are from Sundaland or Indonesia. I wonder if the Marsh Arabs or M'adans of Iraq are relics from Sumeria. Theire culture reminds me of Sumerians/Polynesian.