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Pite Sami
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critically endangered Saami language
Key facts
- Native to
- Sweden
- Region
- Pite River
- Native speakers
- 25 to 50 (2010)
- Language family
- Uralic Sámi Western Central Lule –Pite Pite Sámi
- Writing system
- Latin
- Iso 639 3
- sje
- Glottolog
- pite1240
- Elp
- Pite Saami
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
UraTyp - Language Pite Saami
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Western Sami
- Country
- Norway
- Image
- Guolle Pite Saami Noun Paradigm.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pite Sámi
- Commons category
- Pite Sami language
- has grammatical case
- abessive case
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 50
- Wikimedia language code
- sje
- indigenous to
- Saltdal Municipality
- native label
- bidumsámegiella
- described at URL
- uralic.clld.org/languages/12
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pite Sámi or Arjeplog Sámi (Pite Sami: Bidumsámegiella, Swedish: Pitesamiska, Norwegian: Pitesamisk) is a Sámi language traditionally spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a critically endangered language that has only about 25–50 native speakers left and is now almost only spoken on the Swedish side of the border along the Pite River in the north of Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur and in the mountainous areas of the Arjeplog municipality.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pite Sami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.