Pite Sámi
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Pite Sámi is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people in the Arjeplog area of northern Sweden.
Aliases (3)
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sámi language
→
Uralic language → endangered language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lule Sámi
→
North Sámi → |
| country |
Sweden
→
|
| documentationStatus |
partially documented
→
|
| educationUse |
very limited
→
|
| endangermentCause |
historical assimilation policies
→
language shift to Swedish → |
| ethnicGroup |
Sámi people
→
|
| family |
Uralic
→
|
| glottocode |
pite1240
→
|
| hasAutonym |
Bidumsámegiella
→
|
| hasDialects |
no major dialects
→
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
dual number historically
→
grammatical gender absent → multiple noun cases → |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
→
consonant gradation → rich case system → verb inflection for person and number → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
consonant length contrast
→
tone not phonemic → vowel length contrast → |
| hasWordOrder |
relatively free word order
→
|
| ISO639-3 |
sje
→
|
| languageCodeStandard |
ISO 639-3
→
|
| mediaUse |
very limited
→
|
| moreDistantlyRelatedTo |
Estonian
→
Finnish → Hungarian → |
| numberOfSpeakers |
fewer than 50
→
|
| region |
Lapland
→
|
| revitalizationEffort |
community language courses
→
documentation projects → orthography development → |
| spokenIn |
Sweden
→
|
| status |
severely endangered
→
|
| subclassOf |
Western Sámi language
→
|
| subfamily |
Sámi
→
|
| traditionalRegion |
Arjeplog
→
Arjeplog Municipality → Norrbotten County → northern Sweden → |
| UNESCOStatus |
severely endangered
→
|
| usedBy |
Pite Sámi community
→
|
| writingSystem |
Latin script
→
|
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Finno-Ugric languages
("Pite Sami language")
→
Sami languages ("Pite Sami") → |
hasMember |
|
Ume Sami
("Pite Sami")
→
|
closelyRelatedTo |
|
Northern Sweden
("Pite Sami")
→
|
hasIndigenousLanguage |
|
Sámi
→
|
hasLanguage |
|
Sámediggi (Sweden)
→
|
languageOfWorkOrName |
|
Pite Sámi
("Pite Sámi community")
→
|
usedBy |