Inari Sámi

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Inari Sámi is a Uralic minority language spoken primarily around Lake Inari in northern Finland by the Inari Sámi people.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Inari Sami 1
Inari Sami language 1
Inari Sámi people 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sámi language
Uralic language
minority language
belongsToBranch Eastern Sámi languages
closelyRelatedTo Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sámi

Skolt Sami language
surface form: Skolt Sámi
country Finland
endangeredStatus severely endangered
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers several hundred
hasCaseSystem rich grammatical case system
hasDialects no major dialectal division
hasDigitalResources language learning materials
online dictionaries
spell-checkers
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
consonant gradation
vowel harmony
hasLanguageCouncil Sámi Language Council in Finland
hasOfficialSupportFrom Sámi Parliament of Finland
hasOrthographyStandardizedIn 20th century
hasPhonologicalFeature long and short vowels
palatalization contrasts
hasWordOrder typically SVO
iso639-3Code smn
isOnlySámiLanguageSpokenExclusivelyIn Finland
languageFamily Uralic languages
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Finnish
Northern Sami language
surface form: Northern Sámi
recognizedAsMinorityLanguageIn Finland
region Inari municipality
Northern Finland
revitalizationEffortsBy Inari Sámi language organizations
immersion schools
language nests
spokenAround Lake Inari
spokenBy Inari Sámi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Inari Sámi people
spokenIn Finland
Lapland
subfamily Sámi languages
taughtAt University of Helsinki
University of Oulu
usedFor literature
local administration
music
usedIn education
local media
religious services
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (7)

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

Sámi hasLanguage Inari Sámi
Sámi hasLanguage Inari Sámi
this entity surface form: Skolt Sámi
Sami languages hasMember Inari Sámi
this entity surface form: Inari Sami
Uralic languages hasMember Inari Sámi
this entity surface form: Inari Sami language
Lapland minorityLanguage Inari Sámi
Inari Sámi spokenBy Inari Sámi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Inari Sámi people