Overview
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

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Language Information By Source

Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~300

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

" The number of 500-700 speakers, which is found in most reference books, seems to be rather optimistic."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Russia, Murmansk oblast

Coordinates

68.004353, 35.001731

Location description

Kola peninsula

Government support

No data

Institutional support

School books, revitalization projects, seminars

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic

Other writing systems

Kola peninsula

More on writing systems

3 main variants

Other languages used

Russian

Domains of other languages

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

787

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

68.0075,35.0079

Location description

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Government support

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

1,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"1,900 Saami in the Russian Federation (1995 M. Krauss). Data for the ethnic population is from M. Krauss (1995).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Other languages used

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300-700

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

Kola Peninsula, northwestern-most region of Russia

Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Kola Peninsula, northwestern-most region of Russia

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No data

Other languages used

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

67.0,37.0

Location description

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Government support

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Other languages used

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

800

Domains of Use

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