Proto-Samic

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Proto-Samic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the modern Sami languages spoken across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Proto-Samic language 2

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uralic language
proto-language
reconstructed language
ancestorOf Inari Sami NERFINISHED
Kildin Sami NERFINISHED
Lule Sami NERFINISHED
Northern Sami NERFINISHED
Pite Sami NERFINISHED
Skolt Sami NERFINISHED
Southern Sami NERFINISHED
Ter Sami
Ume Sami NERFINISHED
developedFrom Pre-Samic NERFINISHED
Proto-Uralic NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudyFor historical linguistics
hasDescendant Central Sami branch
Eastern Sami branch
Western Sami branch
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
consonant gradation
rich case system
three-way quantity contrast in consonants
vowel harmony
hasLexicalBorrowingsFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic NERFINISHED
Proto-Germanic NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyDescribedIn Proto-Samic morphology
hasPhonologicalSystemDescribedIn Proto-Samic phonology
hasReconstructionTradition Finnish school of Uralic studies NERFINISHED
Scandinavian school of Uralic studies NERFINISHED
influencedBy Indo-European contact languages
Proto-Balto-Finnic NERFINISHED
partOf Uralic language family NERFINISHED
reconstructedBy comparative method
reconstructedFrom historical Sami language data
modern Sami languages
sharesIsoglossWith Proto-Finnic NERFINISHED
spokenInPrehistoryOf northern Finland NERFINISHED
northern Norway NERFINISHED
northern Sweden NERFINISHED
northwest Russia
studiedIn Uralic linguistics
subclassOf Samic languages
Uralic languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth late 1st millennium BCE to early 1st millennium CE
writingSystem unwritten language

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

North Sámi ancestor Proto-Samic
Northern Sami language ancestor Proto-Samic
subject surface form: Northern Sami
Akkala Sami hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Northern Ume Sami hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Southern Ume Sami hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Ter Sami language hasAncestor Proto-Samic
this entity surface form: Proto-Samic language
Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi hasAncestor Proto-Samic
subject surface form: Ter Sámi
Western Sámi language hasAncestor Proto-Samic
this entity surface form: Proto-Samic language