Kildin Saami
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| Kildin Saami | ||
|---|---|---|
| Autoglottonym: | (Kīllt) Sāmʼ kīll | |
| Pronunciation: | [{{{Pronunciation}}}] | |
| Ethnologue name: | Saami, Kildin | |
| OLAC name: | {{{OLACname}}} | |
| Location point: | 37dE 67dN | |
| Genealogy | ||
| Family: | Uralic | |
| Genus: | Peninsula-East-Saamic | |
| Speakers | ||
| Country: | Russian Federation | |
| Official in: | not an official language | |
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| Writing system: | {{{WritingSyst}}} | |
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| ISO 639-3: | {{{ISO3}}} | |
Kildin Saami is a seriously endangered East-Saamic (Uralic) language spoken in the Russian Federation.
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Name
Pronunciation: [(kiːlːˠt) saːmʲ kːlːˠ]
The name Kildin is borrowed from Russian кильдин-/kilʼdin-, the name for an island on the Barents Sea coast close to present-day Murmansk. The name of the island goes back to a Kildin Saami word kīllt, which originally referred only to the rather peripheral Kīllt dialect of this language.
Location
Kildin Saami is spoken on the Kola peninsula in northwesternmost Russia.
Speakers
The number of active speakers is estimated at around 100 (2011).[1]
Dialects
- Arsjogk
- Kīllt
- Koardegk
- Lejjavvʼr (†)
- Lujavvʼr
- Māziell`k (†)
Classification
Links
- 'Kildin Saami' in Wikipedia
- 'Kildin Saami' in the Kildin Saami Wikimedia Incubator
- 'Kildin Saami: a brief introduction' by Michael Rießler
Works on the language
- Blokland, Rogier and Michael Rießler. 2011. Saami-Russian-Komi contacts on the Kola Peninsula. Language contact in times of globalization, ed. by Cornelius Hasselblatt, Peter Houtzagers and Remco van Pareren. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 5–26.
- Kert, Georgij M. 1971. Saamskij jazyk. Leningrad: Nauka.
- Scheller, Elisabeth. 2011. The Sámi language situation in Russia. Ethnic and linguistic context of identity, ed. by Riho Grünthal and Magdolna Kovács. Helsinki: SUS. 79–96.
References
- ↑ Scheller 2011
See also
Survey articles on Kildin Saami
Other languages
- German Kildinsaamisch
