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
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
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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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