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ISO 639-3 · smesme
Uralic family
Northern Sami
davvisámegiella
Northern Sami is a language of the Western Sami branch (Uralic), spoken in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Wikidata counts about 25,700 speakers (2009). Wikidata describes it as “most widely spoken of all Sámi languages”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sme- ISO 639-1
se- Glottocode
nort2671- Family
- Uralic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Centre point
- 69.00, 21.00
- Wikipedia
- 88 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
3scripts
7levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Northern Sami · davvisámegiella |
|---|---|
| Also called | North Sami, Davvisámegiella, Davvisámi, Davvisaami, Davvisamegiella |
| All speakers | 25,700 (2009) |
| Written in | Latin script, Northern Sami Braille, Northern Sami orthography |
| Grammatical cases | 7 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Uralic to Northern Sami
The branches above Northern Sami, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Norway
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