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- Uralic
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- Southern Sami
ISO 639-3 · smasma
Uralic family
Southern Sami
åarjelsaemien gïele
Southern Sami is a language of the Western Sami branch (Uralic), spoken in Norway and Sweden. Wikidata counts about 600 speakers (1992). Wikidata describes it as “endangered Uralic language of Scandinavia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sma- Glottocode
sout2674- Family
- Uralic
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 61 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
7levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Southern Sami · åarjelsaemien gïele |
|---|---|
| Also called | Southern Sami language, åarjelsaemien gïele, åarjelsaemiengïele, Southern Saami, Southern Sámi |
| All speakers | 600 (1992) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Grammatical cases | 8 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Uralic to Southern Sami
The branches above Southern 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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