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Also known as Kemi Sami language, Kemi Saami, sjk, Kemi Sámi

extinct Sami language

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Native to
Finland
Region
southern Lapland (Finland)
Extinct
19th century
Language family
Uralic Sámi Eastern Sámi Kemi Sámi
Iso 639 3
sjk
Linguist list
sjk
Glottolog
kemi1239

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Kemi Sámi was a Sámi language that was originally spoken in the Kemi Lapland [fi] district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sámi siidas around Kuusamo.

A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sámi dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).

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