Akkala Sami

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Akkala Sami
Spoken in: Southwest Kola Peninsula, Russia
Language extinction: December 29, 2003 with the death of Marja Sergina
Language family: Uralic
 Sami
  Eastern
   Akkala Sami 
Writing system: Cyrillic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: smi
ISO 639-3: sia
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Akkala Sami is a Sami language that was spoken in the Sami villages of A´kkel and Ču´kksuâl, in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Formerly erroneously regarded as a dialect of Kildin Sami, it has recently become recognized as an independent Sami language that is most closely related to its western neighbor Skolt Sami.

The last known speaker of Akkala Sami, Marja Sergina, died on December 29, 2003 and it is now extinct.[1] The language remains the most poorly documented of the Sami languages.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Sami) http://www.galdu.org/govat/doc/nordisk_samekonvensjon.pdf
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