Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi

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Ter Sámi is a critically endangered Eastern Sami language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sámi people in the northeastern Kola Peninsula of Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Sami language
Uralic language
critically endangered language
belongsToMacroArea Northern Europe
branch Eastern Sami
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sámi
surface form: Kildin Sami

Skolt Sami language
surface form: Skolt Sami
country Russia
endangermentCause assimilation policies in the Soviet Union
language shift to Russian
ethnicity Ter Sámi
family Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic language family
hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Proto-Uralic language
surface form: Proto-Uralic
hasCaseSystem yes
hasDialectContinuumWith other Eastern Sami varieties
hasEndangermentStatusSource UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
hasMinorityStatusIn Russia
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant gradation
palatalization contrast
vowel length distinction
hasSociolinguisticSituation severely interrupted intergenerational transmission
ISO639-3Code sjt
languageBranch Sami
languageFamily Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
languageShiftTo Russian
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphologyType agglutinative
region northeastern Kola Peninsula
spokenIn Kola Peninsula
Murmansk Oblast
status critically endangered
subclassOf Sami languages
surface form: Sami language
subfamily Sami branch
traditionalSpeakers Sámi of Russia
surface form: Ter Sámi people
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
usedBy small number of elderly speakers
usedInTraditionalCulture fishing terminology
hunting terminology
reindeer herding terminology
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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