Northern Sami

Details

Instance of

language, modern language

Subclass of

Western Sami

Located in

Finnmark, Troms, Ofoten, Utsjoki, Sodankylä, Enontekiö, Kiruna Municipality, Gällivare Municipality, Jokkmokk Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality, Arvidsjaur Municipality, Karesuando Municipality

Country

Norway, Sweden, Finland

category for films in this language

Category:Northern Saami-language films

category for music in this language

Category:Northern Sámi-language music

Ethnologue language status

2 Provincial, 6b Threatened

female form of label

la langue same du Nord

has grammatical case

nominative case, genitive case, accusative case, illative case, locative case, comitative case, essive case

has grammatical mood

indicative, imperative, conditional, potential

has tense

present tense, past tense

indigenous to

Northern Sámi people, Lapland, Nordland, Troms, Finnmark, Norrbotten County

language regulatory body

Sámi Giellagáldu

linguistic typology

subject–verb–object, agglutinative language, adjective-noun, stress, synthetic language, nominative–accusative language

native label

davvisámegiella, sámegiella

number of speakers, writers, or signers

20000, 1700, 4000, 25700

related category

Category:Northern Sámi-language albums

topic has template

Template:Se icon, Q102826201

topic's main category

Category:Northern Sámi

UNESCO language status

3 definitely endangered

Wikimedia language code

se

writing system

Latin script, Northern Sami Braille, Northern Sami orthography

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files