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Kildin Sami
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Uralic language spoken in northwestern Russia
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Kola Peninsula ( Murmansk Oblast )
- Native speakers
- c. 341 (primarily Kildin) (2020 census)
- Language family
- Uralic Sámi Eastern Peninsula Kildin Sámi
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- sjd
- Glottolog
- kild1236
- Elp
- Kildin Saami
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- natural language
- Subclass of
- Eastern Sami
- Country
- Russia
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 350
- topic's main category
- Category:Kildin Sámi
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- Commons category
- Kildin Sami language
- Wikimedia language code
- sjd
- indigenous to
- Kola Peninsula
- native label
- кӣлтса̄мь кӣлл
- has grammatical case
- partitive case
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Encyclopedic overview
A Kildin Sámi speaker Kildin Sámi, also spelt as Kildin Saami is a Sámi language spoken on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern Russia by the Kildin Sámi, who have historically inhabited the peninsula.
The Sámi languages closest to Kildin are Ter Sámi and Akkala Sámi, in Soviet tradition sometimes considered to be dialects of Kildin Sámi. From a strictly geographical point of view, only Kildin and Ter, spoken on the Peninsula, could be regarded as Kola Sámi. It is the largest of the Eastern Sámi languages by number of speakers. However, unlike its close relatives Skolt Sámi and Inari Sámi, Kildin Sámi is only used actively by very few people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kildin Sami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.