NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Southern Sami

Southern Saami is divided into two main dialects: Southern Saami sensu stricto and Ume Saami. The latter is spoken in the Ume River Valley and has some characteristics in common with Lule and Northern Saami. Southern Sami is a seriously endangered language. The last strongholds of this language are the municipalities of Sn�sa and Hattfjelldal in Norway where there still are a few hundred speakers.

Roman alphabet: A/a, B/b, D/d, E/e, F/f, G/g, H/h, I/i, (�/�), J/j, K/k, L/l, M/m, N/n, O/o, P/p, R/r, S/s, T/t, U/u, V/v, Y/y, �/�, �/�, �/�

�/� is a variant of �/�, �/� is a variant of �/�

C/c, Q/q, W/w, X/x, Z/z are also used in words of foreign origin.

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Sami languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (843 words)
	The Sami languages are spoken in Lapland in Northern Europe, in a region stretching over the four countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, reaching from the southern part of central Scandinavia in the southwest to the tip of the Kola Peninsula in the east.
	The last speaker of Akkala Sami is known to have died in 2003, and the eleventh attested variety Kemi Sami became extinct already in the 19th century.
	Sami is an official language of the municipalities of Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger and Tana.

Southern Sami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (547 words)
	A typical feature of Southern Sami is the alteration of first-syllable vowels through Umlaut in the declension and conjugation of words.
	Southern Sámi is one of the few Sámi languages that still differentiates between the accusative and the genitive morphologically.
	In Southern Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to tense (past and non-past), mood (indicative and imperative), person (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and person (singular, dual and plural).

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