Kildin Sámi

E81317

Sámi language Uralic language endangered language minority language

Kildin Sámi is a Uralic language spoken by the Sámi people primarily on Russia’s Kola Peninsula.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Kildin Sami	6
Kildin Saami	1
Kildin Sami language	1
Kildin Sámi people	1
North Sami	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sámi language ⓘ Uralic language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ minority language ⓘ
belongsTo	Finno-Ugric languages ⓘ surface form: Finno-Ugric group (traditional classification)
branch	Eastern Sámi languages ⓘ surface form: Eastern Sámi
closelyRelatedTo	North Sámi ⓘ Skolt Sami language ⓘ surface form: Skolt Sámi Ter Sámi ⓘ
country	Russia ⓘ surface form: Russian Federation
endangermentStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Kildin Sámi ⓘ surface form: Kildin Saami Kildin Sámi ⓘ surface form: Kildin Sami Kolt Saami ⓘ
hasCaseSystem	multiple grammatical cases ⓘ
hasDialects	Ter-type varieties ⓘ
hasEarlierWritingSystems	Latin-based orthographies (historical) ⓘ
hasGlottocode	kild1238 ⓘ
hasGlottologName	Kildin Sámi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kildin Sami
hasGrammaticalCategory	grammatical number ⓘ grammatical person ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	sjd ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	Russian language ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ consonant gradation ⓘ rich case system ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate	hundreds of speakers ⓘ
hasOrthographyStandardized	20th century ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	palatalized consonants ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasWordOrder	SVO-dominant ⓘ
historicalRegion	Kola Peninsula ⓘ
influencedBy	Russian language ⓘ
languageFamily	Uralic languages ⓘ surface form: Uralic
recognizedAs	minority language in Russia ⓘ
region	Murmansk Oblast ⓘ
spokenBy	Kildin Sámi self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kildin Sámi people Sámi ⓘ surface form: Sámi people
spokenIn	Kola Peninsula ⓘ Russia ⓘ
subfamily	Saamic ⓘ
subjectOf	language revitalization efforts ⓘ linguistic documentation projects ⓘ
taughtIn	some schools in Murmansk Oblast ⓘ
usedFor	folklore ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ traditional reindeer herding terminology ⓘ
usedIn	traditional Sámi cultural contexts ⓘ
usesAlphabet	extended Cyrillic alphabet ⓘ
writingSystem	Cyrillic script ⓘ