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Northern Sami
Sign in to saveAlso known as North Sami, Davvisámegiella, Davvisámi, Davvisaami, Davvisamegiella, Davvisami, Northern Saami
most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
Northern Sami is the most widely spoken language among the Sámi people, an indigenous group living in northern Scandinavia and Russia. It matters because it represents an important part of Sámi cultural identity and heritage in a region where indigenous languages face pressure from dominant national languages.
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Described at
UraTyp - Language North Saami
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Western Sami
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Jukkasjärvi
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- has grammatical mood
- potential
- P10369
- Peru
- Wikimedia language code
- se
- topic's main category
- Category:Northern Sámi
- native label
- sámegiella
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 25700
- Commons category
- Northern Sami language
- has grammatical case
- essive case
- indigenous to
- Norrbotten County
- linguistic typology
- nominative–accusative language
- P11012
- Astana
- described at URL
- uralic.clld.org/languages/16
- has tense
- past tense
- female form of label
- la langue same du Nord
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Speakers of Northern Sámi Northern Sámi (or North Sámi; US: /ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee, UK: also /ˈsæmi/ SAM-ee; Northern Sami: davvisámegiella [ˈtavːiːˌsaːmeˌkie̯lːa]; Finnish: pohjoissaame [ˈpohjoi̯sˌsɑːme]; Norwegian: nordsamisk; Swedish: nordsamiska; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sámi languages. The area where Northern Sámi is spoken covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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