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Preferred term

sjkKemi Sami  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Kemi Sami is a Sami language that was originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around Kuusamo. A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sami dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sami and Skolt Sami (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity). Extinct now for over 100 years, few written examples of Kemi Sami survive. Johannes Schefferuss Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sami Olof (Mattsson) Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot". A short vocabulary was written by the Finnish priest Jacob Fellman in 1829 after he visited the villages of Salla (Kuolajärvi until 1936) and Sompio . Also, the following translation of the Lords Prayer...

Entry terms

  • Kemi Sami language
  • Sami, Kemi

ISO 639-3 code

  • sjk

In other languages

  • Samieg Kemi

    Breton

  • Кеми-саамски език

    Bulgarian

  • Kemijská sámština

    Czech

  • Kemi-samea lingvo

    Esperanto

  • Kemi saami keel

    Estonian

  • Keminsaame

    Finnish

  • Kemisamische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua sami di Kemi

    Italian

  • Kemės samių kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Кеми-лапонски јазик

    Macedonian

  • Giemasámegiella

    Northern Sami

  • Kemisamisk

    Norwegian

  • Lenga Saami, Kemi

    Piedmontese

  • Língua sami de Kemi

    Portuguese

  • Кеми-саамский язык

    Russian

  • Kemisamiska

    Swedish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sjk

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