Ter Sami
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nearly extinct Uralic language
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Murmansk Oblast , St. Petersburg
- Ethnicity
- Kola Sámi
- Native speakers
- 2 (2011) , 30 (2007)
- Language family
- Uralic Sámi Eastern Sámi Ter Sámi
- Writing system
- Latin script (historical), Cyrillic script (current; unofficial)
- Iso 639 3
- sjt
- Glottolog
- ters1235
- Elp
- Ter Saami
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ter Sámi is the easternmost of the Sámi languages. It was traditionally spoken in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula, but now it is a moribund language; in 2004, only ten speakers were left. By 2011, the number of speakers had decreased to two. Other estimates counted about 30 Ter Sámi speakers in Murmansk Oblast, as well as in St. Petersburg, in 2007. The mean age of the youngest Ter Sámi speakers at that time was 50.
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