Also Known As:
Koltta, Eastern Saami, Kola Saami, Koltansaame, колтта-саамский язык, sääʹmǩiõll, nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll, Skoltesamisk, Skoltesamiska
Dialects & Varieties
- Notozero
Europe and North Asia
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~300
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Northern Europe: Lapland and Kola peninsula
Location Description
Spoken in Sevettijärvi region in Inari County in Lapland Province in Finland
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Comments on writing systems:
Skolt Saami has been used as a literary language since the 1970s.
Recent Resources
The collection of links containing texts written in Skolt Sami.
UralicNLP is a natural language processing (NLP) library written in Python that is targeted mainly f
The national anthem of Sapmi in Skolt Sami.