Ter Sami

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Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by a small Sami community on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sami language
Uralic language
critically endangered language
associatedWith Sami culture
reindeer herding
continent Europe
country Russia
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Sami people
surface form: Ter Sami people
hasCase multiple grammatical cases
hasCaseSystem yes
hasConsonantGradation yes
hasDialect Eastern Ter Sami
Ter Sámi
surface form: Western Ter Sami
hasGrammaticalGender no grammatical gender
hasGrammaticalNumber singular and plural
hasInflectionFor case
mood
number
tense
hasVowelHarmony limited
hasWordOrder flexible SVO
historicalContactLanguage Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sami

Russian language
surface form: Russian
historicalRegion eastern part of the Kola Peninsula
ISO639-3Code sjt
languageBranch Eastern Sami
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageShiftTo Russian
lexicalBorrowingFrom Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sami

Russian
minorityStatus minority language in Russia
morphologicalType agglutinative language
neighboringLanguages Kildin Sámi
surface form: Kildin Sami

Russian language
surface form: Russian

Skolt Sami language
surface form: Skolt Sami
numberOfSpeakers very few elderly speakers
phonologicalFeature palatalization contrasts
primaryUse oral communication
region Kola Peninsula
revitalizationEfforts limited
spokenBy Sami people
surface form: Ter Sami people
status critically endangered
subfamily Sami languages
traditionalRegion northwestern Russia
UNESCOEndangermentCategory critically endangered
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script

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Sami hasLanguage Ter Sami
Sami languages hasMember Ter Sami