Kemi Sami
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extinct Sami language
Key facts
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- extinct language
- Subclass of
- Eastern Sami
- Country
- Finland
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- topic's main category
- Category:Kemi Sami language
- indigenous to
- Lapland
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kemi Sami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.