Concept information
Preferred term
smeNorthern Sami
Type
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language
Definition
- Northern or North Sami (Sámegiella or Davvisámegiella, formerly Davvisámi or Davvisaami; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000. About 2000 of these live in Finland and between 5000 and 6000 in Sweden.
Entry terms
- Northern Sami language
- Sami, Northern
is focus of
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- sme
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- sme
ISO 639-1 code
- se
ISO 639-3 code
- sme
In other languages
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Noordelike Sami
Afrikaans
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ሰሜናዊ ሳሚ
Amharic
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ስሜን ሳሚኛ
-
السامي الشمالي
Arabic
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şimal sami dili
Azerbaijani
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উত্তরাঞ্চলীয় সামি
Bangla
-
Ipar samiera
Basque
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iparraldeko samiera
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Паўночнасаамская мова
Belarusian
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उत्तरी सामी
Bodo
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severni sami
Bosnian
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sámi an Norzh
Breton
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Samieg an Norzh
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северен сами
Bulgarian
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Северносаамски език
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URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sme
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