Saami, Kemi > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Saami, Kemi
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Saami; Lapp; Lappish; Eastern; Lappisch; lapon; sabme; same-; lopary; Sami; Sámi; Eastern Saami; Lappic; east dialect; "Lapp"; sāme-giellâ; lappisk; lapin kieli; saamen kieli; saamskij jazyk
Once Spoken in:
Finland
Code:
sjk
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed)
Parent Subgroup:
Eastern Sami; East Lapp; Eastern dialect area; Eastern Samic; Eastern (elap)
Brief Description:
Originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around Kuusamo. Johannes Schefferus's Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sami Olof (Mattsson) Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot". A short vocabulary was written by Jacob Fellman in 1829 after he visited the villages of Kuolajärvi and Sompio (Äima, F, Itkonen, T.I. 1918: Jacob Fellmanin muistiinpanot Sompion ja Kuolajärven lapin murteista. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 30 p. 1-91.). There also exists a translation of the Lord's Prayer. Extinct since the 19th century.
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Saami, Kemi
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