Sami languages

E73468

Sami languages are a group of Uralic Indigenous languages spoken by the Sámi people across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous languages
Uralic languages
minority languages
closelyRelatedTo Finnic languages
hasApproximateNumberOfVarieties around 10
hasBranch Central Sami languages
Eastern Sámi languages
surface form: Eastern Sami languages

Western Sami languages
hasCulturalRole key marker of Sámi identity
used in traditional joik singing
hasMember Akkala Sami
Inari Sámi
surface form: Inari Sami

Kildin Sámi
surface form: Kildin Sami

Lule Sami
Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sami

Pite Sámi
surface form: Pite Sami

Skolt Sami language
surface form: Skolt Sami

Southern Sami language
surface form: Southern Sami

Ter Sami
Ume Sami
hasOrthographicStandard Lule Sami orthography
Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sami orthography

Southern Sami language
surface form: Southern Sami orthography
hasStatus endangered
severely endangered
vulnerable
hasWritingSystem Latin script
historicallySpokenIn Kola Peninsula
northern Scandinavia
ISO639FamilyCode smi
languageFamily Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
mutualIntelligibility limited between many Sami varieties
partOf Uralic languages
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Finland
Norway
Russia
Sweden
spokenBy Sámi
surface form: Sámi people
spokenIn Finland
Norway
Russia
Sweden
Lapland
surface form: Sápmi
subclassOf Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic language family
subjectOf language policy debates in Nordic countries
language revitalization efforts
usedIn Sámi education
Sámi
surface form: Sámi media

Sámi parliaments

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Finnic languages sharesFeatureWith Sami languages
Finnic languages relatedTo Sami languages
this entity surface form: Samic languages
Sami hasLanguage Sami languages
this entity surface form: Northern Sami
Sami hasLanguage Sami languages
this entity surface form: Southern Sami
Sami standardizedFor Sami languages
this entity surface form: Northern Sami
Sami standardizedFor Sami languages
this entity surface form: Southern Sami
Northern Norway minorityLanguage Sami languages
this entity surface form: Northern Sami
Sámi hasLanguage Sami languages
this entity surface form: Northern Sámi
Sámi hasLanguage Sami languages
this entity surface form: Southern Sámi
Petsamo, Finland languageHistorical Sami languages
this entity surface form: Northern Sámi
Nordic Americans ancestralLanguages Sami languages
Church of Sweden languageUsed Sami languages
Ter Sámi subfamily Sami languages
Ume Sami subfamily Sami languages
Ter Sami subfamily Sami languages
Finno-Ugric languages hasMember Sami languages
NRK languageOfBroadcast Sami languages
Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi subclassOf Sami languages
subject surface form: Ter Sámi
this entity surface form: Sami language
Norrbotten County languageUsed Sami languages
Central Sami languages partOf Sami languages
this entity surface form: Sami language family
Lule Sami area languageSubfamily Sami languages
Eastern Sami partOf Sami languages
Eastern Sami hasSubgroup Sami languages
this entity surface form: Kola Sami languages