Ume Sami

E74349

Ume Sami is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Sweden.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Ume Sámi 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sami language
Uralic language
endangered language
closelyRelatedTo Lule Sami
Pite Sámi
surface form: Pite Sami
country Sweden
countrySubdivision Västerbotten County
endangermentCause language shift to Swedish
ethnicGroup Sami
hasDialects Northern Ume Sami
Southern Ume Sami
hasGrammaticalFeature case inflection
consonant gradation
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
ISO639-3Code ume
languageBranch Western Sami languages
languageFamily Uralic languages
minorityLanguageIn Sweden
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Kildin Sámi
surface form: North Sami

Southern Sami language
surface form: South Sami
region northern Sweden
revitalizationEfforts language documentation projects
teaching materials development
spokenAlong Ume River NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subfamily Sami languages
traditionalSpeakers Sami people
usedBy very small number of speakers
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

subject surface form: Northern Sweden
Sami hasLanguage Ume Sami
Sámi hasLanguage Ume Sami
this entity surface form: Ume Sámi
Sami languages hasMember Ume Sami