Sami languages

E73468

Indigenous languages Uralic languages minority languages

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

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous languages → Uralic languages → minority languages →
closelyRelatedTo	Finnic languages →
hasApproximateNumberOfVarieties	around 10 →
hasBranch	Central Sami languages → Eastern Sami languages → Western Sami languages →
hasCulturalRole	key marker of Sámi identity → used in traditional joik singing →
hasMember	Akkala Sami → Inari Sami → Kildin Sami → Lule Sami → Northern Sami → Pite Sami → Skolt Sami → Southern Sami → Ter Sami → Ume Sami →
hasOrthographicStandard	Lule Sami orthography → Northern Sami orthography → Southern Sami orthography →
hasStatus	endangered → severely endangered → vulnerable →
hasWritingSystem	Latin script →
historicallySpokenIn	Kola Peninsula → northern Scandinavia →
ISO639FamilyCode	smi →
languageFamily	Uralic →
mutualIntelligibility	limited between many Sami varieties →
partOf	Uralic languages →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	Finland → Norway → Russia → Sweden →
spokenBy	Sámi people →
spokenIn	Finland → Norway → Russia → Sweden → Sápmi →
subclassOf	Uralic language family →
subjectOf	language policy debates in Nordic countries → language revitalization efforts →
usedIn	Sámi education → Sámi media → Sámi parliaments →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sami ("Northern Sami") → Sami ("Southern Sami") → Sámi ("Northern Sámi") → Sámi ("Southern Sámi") →	hasLanguage
Ter Sami → Ter Sámi → Ume Sami →	subfamily
Sami ("Northern Sami") → Sami ("Southern Sami") →	standardizedFor
Nordic Americans →	ancestralLanguages
Finno-Ugric languages →	hasMember
Petsamo, Finland ("Northern Sámi") →	languageHistorical
NRK →	languageOfBroadcast
Church of Sweden →	languageUsed
Northern Norway ("Northern Sami") →	minorityLanguage
Finnic languages ("Samic languages") →	relatedTo
Finnic languages →	sharesFeatureWith