Akkala Sami

E364673

Akkala Sami is an extinct Uralic language once spoken by the Sami people in the Akkala region of northwestern Russia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Akkala Sami canonical 3
Akkala Sámi 3
Akkala Saami 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sami language
Uralic language
extinct language
associatedWith Kola Sami languages
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sami
linked to: Kildin Sámi

Skolt Sami
linked to: Skolt Sami language
country Russia
culturalRegion Sápmi (Russian part)
linked to: Sápmi
documentedBy linguists in the 20th century
endangeredStatus critically endangered (historical)
ethnicity Akkala Sami
extinctionCause language shift to Kildin Sami
language shift to Russian
geographicDistribution villages around Lake Akkala
hasAlternativeName Akkala Saami
linked to: Akkala Sami

Babinsk Sami
linked to: Babinsky Sámi

Babinsky Sami
North Kola Sami
hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Proto-Uralic
hasConsonantInventory rich set of coronal consonants
hasLinguisticFeature consonant gradation
rich case system
vowel harmony (limited)
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature palatalization contrast
hasSpeakerCommunity small, scattered community
hasVowelInventory contrastive length in vowels
hasWordOrder SVO (basic)
isMinorityLanguageIn Russia
iso639-3 sia
languageBranch Sami
languageFamily Uralic
linked to: Uralic languages
languageShiftTo Kildin Sami
linked to: Kildin Sámi

Russian
lastSpeakersLocatedIn Akkala villages
partOf Uralic language family
linked to: Uralic languages
regionType Akkala
linked to: Akkala region
spokenBy Akkala Sami people
linked to: Sámi of Russia

Sami people
spokenIn Akkala region
Kola Peninsula
northwestern Russia
status extinct
subfamilyOf Eastern Sami languages
Western Sami languages
usedFor traditional Sami cultural practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sami languages hasMember Akkala Sami
Eastern Sámi languages hasMember Akkala Sámi
linked to: Akkala Sami
Sámi languages hasMemberLanguage Akkala Sámi
linked to: Akkala Sami
Sámi languages hasExtinctMemberLanguage Akkala Sámi
linked to: Akkala Sami
Akkala Sami hasAlternativeName Akkala Saami
linked to: Akkala Sami
Akkala Sami ethnicity Akkala Sami
Eastern Sami hasVariety Akkala Sami