Ter Sami language

E376428

Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.

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Label Occurrences
Ter Sami language canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Samic language
Uralic language
critically endangered language
belongsTo Finno-Ugric group (traditional classification)
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sami language
Skolt Sami language
continent Europe
country Russia
endangermentLevel nearly extinct
ethnicity Ter Sami
family Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic language family
hasAlternativeName Ter Lapp
Ter Lappish
Ter Sámi
surface form: Ter Saami
hasAncestor Proto-Samic
surface form: Proto-Samic language

Proto-Uralic language
hasConsonantFeature palatalization contrast
hasGrammaticalCategory grammatical cases
grammatical number
grammatical person
mood
tense
voice
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
hasVowelFeature long and short vowel distinction
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
flexible word order
isEndangeredDueTo assimilation policies in the Soviet era
language shift to Russian
isMinorityLanguageIn Russia
ISO639-3 sjt
languageBranch Eastern Sami
languageContactWith Kildin Sami language
Northern Russian dialects
Russian language
numberOfSpeakers very few speakers
region Kola Peninsula
spokenIn northeastern Kola Peninsula
surface form: eastern Kola Peninsula

northwestern Russia
status critically endangered
subfamily Sámi languages
surface form: Sami languages
traditionalSpeakers Sami people
surface form: Ter Sami people
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
usedBy small elderly population
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Finno-Ugric languages hasMember Ter Sami language
Eastern Ter Sami subdivisionOf Ter Sami language