Sámi

Group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in northern Europe

Also known as Sami languages · Saami languages · Sami · Saami · Sámi languages · Lappish

Speakers: 25,000
Subclass of: Finno-Samic
, Finno-Ugric
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1.Stated in Ethnologue
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Script: Latin script
Indigenous to: Sámi people

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The Sámi languages, also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the indigenous Sámi people in Northern Europe. There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi languages, including Sámi, Sami, Saami, Saame, Sámic, Samic and Saamic, as well as the exonyms Lappish and Lappic. The last two, along with the term Lapp, are sometimes considered pejorative.

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Category for films in this language: Category:Sámi-language films
Bibliography: Saami linguistics bibliography

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45 identifiers linking Sámi across the web's reference databases

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