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Kola Sami language revitalization – opportunities and challenges
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

1

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Several

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Ethnic Population

80

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"Rantala (2009) reports that the last Akkala Sami speaker died in 2003. Nevertheless, my investigations show that there is at least one person aged 70 years with good knowledge of Akkala Sami and using Akkala Sami actively in conversations with active Kildin Sami speakers. In addition to that I estimate that there are several persons with passive knowledge of Akkala Sami on different levels...There is a group of middle-aged Akkala Sami in Ëna who are learning Kildin Sami as an 'intermediate language', hoping to switch to Akkala Sami more easily after they have acquired a good knowledge of Kildin Sami."

Year of info

2013

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Year of info

2010

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67.5809,31.668

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"According to information from different Saami and non-Saami individuals, the last speaker of Akkala passed away in 2003."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Russia, Murmansk oblast

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67.774470, 32.126267

Location description

Mainland near the Kola peninsula

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Mainland near the Kola peninsula

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Russian

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Critically Endangered

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Elder Speakers

1

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"There were eight speakers in the early 1990s, all elderly, and according to a recent report, now only one speaker is known to be living."

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Kola Peninsula, Lovorenzo

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Ethnic Population

100

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"Last known speaker died in 2003." Ethnic population figures from (1995 M. Krauss).

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

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Russia

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Location description

"Murmanskaya Oblast’: southwest Kola peninsula."

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"Murmanskaya Oblast’: southwest Kola peninsula."

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"Some descendants of Akkala Saami speak Kildin Saami [sjd] but most have shifted to Russian [rus] (Salminen 2007)."

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