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Skolt Sami
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Sámi language spoken in Finland, Russia, Norway
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ nuɘrʰtːɕa̟ːmʰʲc͡çiɘlː ]
- Native to
- Finland , Russia , Norway
- Ethnicity
- Skolts
- Native speakers
- c. 330 (2002-2023)
- Language family
- Uralic Sámi Eastern Mainland Skolt Sámi
- Dialects
- Northern: Neiden Paatsjoki Southern: Njuõʹttjäuʹrr Suõʹnnʼjel
- Writing system
- Latin
- Iso 639 2
- sms
- Iso 639 3
- sms
- Glottolog
- skol1241
- Elp
- Skolt Saami
- Glottopedia
- Skolt_Saami
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
UraTyp - Language Skolt Saami
uralic.clld.org →Link to a page describing this subject · 443 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Eastern Sami
- Country
- Norway
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- described at URL
- uralic.clld.org/languages/17
- P10369
- kitten
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sms
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 420
- has grammatical case
- partitive case
- Commons category
- Skolt Sami language
- topic's main category
- Category:Skolt Sámi
- Wikimedia language code
- sms
- indigenous to
- Murmansk Oblast
- native label
- sääʹmǩiõll
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Skolt Sámi (sääʹmǩiõll, pronounced [ɕa̟ːmʰʲc͡çiɘlː], lit. 'the Sámi language'; or nuõrttsää′mǩiõll, pronounced [nuɘrʰtːɕa̟ːmʰʲc͡çiɘlː], lit. 'the Eastern Sámi language') is a Sámi language that is spoken by the Skolts, with approximately 300 speakers in Finland, mainly in Sevettijärvi and approximately 20–30 speakers of the Njuõ′ttjäu′rr (Notozero) dialect in an area surrounding Lake Notozero in Russia. In Norway, there are fewer than 15 that can speak Skolt Sámi (as of 2023); furthermore, the language is largely spoken in the Neiden area. It is written using a modified Roman orthography which was made official in 1973.
The term Skolt was coined by representatives of the majority culture and has negative connotation which can be compared to the term Lapp. Nevertheless, it is used in cultural and linguistic studies. In 2024, Venke Törmänen, the leader of an NGO called Norrõs Skoltesamene, wrote in Ságat, a Sámi newspaper, saying that the term "Eastern Sámi" ("østsame" in Norwegian) should not be used to refer to the Skolt Sámi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skolt Sami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.