Kildin Sami language
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| Kildin Sami | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia | |
| Total speakers: | ~500 | |
| Language family: | Uralic Finno-Ugric Finno-Permic Finno-Volgaic Finno-Lappic Sami Eastern Kildin Sami | |
| Writing system: | Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | smi | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | sjd | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kildin Sami (also spelled Sámi or Saami; formerly Lappish) is a Sami language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. Kildin Sami has an official Cyrillic script.
[edit] Writing system
Kildin Sami is written in an extended version of the Cyrillic alphabet.
| А а | Ӓ ӓ | Б б | В в | Г г | Д д | Е е | Ё ё | Ж ж | З з | Һ һ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /a/ | /a/* | /b/ | /v/ | /g/ | /d/ | /je/ | /jo/ | /ʒ/ | /z/ | /ʰ/ |
| И и | Й й | Ҋ ҋ | Ј ј | К к | Л л | Ӆ ӆ | М м | Ӎ ӎ | Н н | Ӊ ӊ |
| ? | /j/ | /j̊/ | /k/ | /l/ | /l̥/ | /m/ | /m̥/ | /n/ | /n̥/ | |
| Ӈ ӈ | О о | П п | Р р | Ҏ ҏ | С с | Т т | У у | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц |
| /ŋ/ | ? | /p/ | /r/ | /r̥/ | /s/ | /t/ | ? | /f/ | ? | /ts/ |
| Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ъ ъ | Ыы | Ь ь | Ҍ ҍ | Э э | Ӭ ӭ | Ю ю | Я я |
| /tʃ/ | /ʃ/ | /ʃtʃ/ | // | /ɨ/ | /j/ | * | /e/ | /e/* | /ju/ | /ja/ |
ҍ or letters with * follow palatalized д, т, н.
Long vowels are marked with a macron (¯) over the vowel letter (and above the diaeresis in the cases of ӓ and ӭ).
The letters ӓ, ҋ/ј, ӆ, ӎ, ӊ, ӈ, ҏ, ъ, ь, ҍ and ӭ do not occur word initially, either because the letters mark features of preceeding consonants (like, e.g. ӓ, ъ) or the sounds they represent do not occur word initially (like, e.g. ӆ). So these letters don't normally occur in uppercase, except for all caps text.
The letter h occurs word medially or word finally before the letters к, п, т, ц and ч, and marks preaspiration. It is always lowercase, even in all caps text. In another version of the orthography ' (apostrophe) is used to mark preaspiration.
Ҋ and ј are alternate ways of writing the same sound, a voiceless palatal approximant.
The letter щ occurs only in Russian loanwords.
[edit] External links
br:Samieg Kildinit:Lingua sami di Kildin nn:Kildinsamisk språk ru:Кольско-саамский язык se:Gielddasámegiella fi:Kiltinänsaame
