Akkala Sami language

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Akkala Sami is an extinct Uralic Sami language once spoken in the Kola Peninsula of Russia, known for being one of the most endangered and least documented Sami languages.

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instanceOf Sami language
Uralic language
extinct language
alternativeName Akkala NERFINISHED
Akkala Lappish NERFINISHED
Akkala Saami NERFINISHED
Babinsk Sami NERFINISHED
Babinsky Sami NERFINISHED
North Kola Sami NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sami language NERFINISHED
Skolt Sami language NERFINISHED
country Russia
documentationStatus one of the least documented Sami languages
poorly documented
endangermentReason assimilation policies in Russia
language shift to Russian
endangermentStatus critically endangered (historical)
ethnicity Akkala Sami NERFINISHED
extinctionDate early 2000s
family Uralic NERFINISHED
glottocode akka1241
hasNativeName sääʹmkiõll (Akkala Sami endonym, approximate)
hasVowelHarmony no
historicalCommunity Akkala area of Kola Peninsula NERFINISHED
Babinsky (Babinsky pogost) NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 sia
languageFamilyBranch Sami branch of Uralic
lastKnownNativeSpeaker Maria Sergina NERFINISHED
lastKnownNativeSpeakerDied 2003
lexicalInfluenceFrom Kildin Sami NERFINISHED
Russian
linguisticBranch Eastern Sami
morphologicalFeature consonant gradation
rich case system
numberOfCases multiple grammatical cases
partOf Sami languages of Russia NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature palatalization contrasts
region Kola Peninsula NERFINISHED
researchInterest Uralic linguistics
language death studies
status extinct
subclassOf Eastern Sami language NERFINISHED
subfamily Sami NERFINISHED
syntacticFeature SOV and SVO word order
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
suffixing morphology
UNESCOStatus extinct
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Skolt Sami language closelyRelatedTo Akkala Sami language