Kolt Saami

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Kolt Saami is a Uralic Sámi language spoken on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, primarily by the Kildin Sámi people.

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Kolt Saami canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sámi language
Uralic language
minority language
belongsToBranch Sami branch of Uralic family
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sámi
Skolt Sámi
endangeredStatus severely endangered
family Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
consonant gradation
palatalization contrasts
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasMorphologicalFeature rich inflectional morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive palatalized vs non-palatalized consonants
hasSpeakerCommunity Kildin Sámi settlements on Kola Peninsula
hasSyntaxFeature relatively free word order
languageCodeISO639-3 sjd
minorityLanguageIn Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
partOf Sámi languages
surface form: Sámi languages of Russia
region Murmansk Oblast NERFINISHED
spokenBy Sámi of Russia
surface form: Kildin Sámi people
spokenIn Kola Peninsula
Russia
subclassOf Eastern Sámi languages
surface form: Eastern Sámi language
subfamily Sámi
threatenedBy language shift to Russian
usedFor oral communication
traditional Sámi cultural practices
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Kildin Sámi hasAlternativeName Kolt Saami