Pite Sámi

E81462

Pite Sámi is an endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Sámi people in the Arjeplog area of northern Sweden.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Pite Sami 8
Pite Sámi canonical 6
Pite Sami language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sámi language
Uralic language
endangered language
closelyRelatedTo Lule Sámi
North Sámi
country Sweden
documentationStatus partially documented
educationUse very limited
endangermentCause historical assimilation policies
language shift to Swedish
ethnicGroup Sámi people
linked to: Sámi
family Uralic
linked to: Uralic languages
glottocode pite1240
hasAutonym Bidumsámegiella
hasDialects no major dialects
hasGrammaticalCategory dual number historically
grammatical gender absent
multiple noun cases
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
consonant gradation
rich case system
verb inflection for person and number
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrast
tone not phonemic
vowel length contrast
hasWordOrder relatively free word order
ISO639-3 sje
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
linked to: ISO 639
mediaUse very limited
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
numberOfSpeakers fewer than 50
region Lapland
revitalizationEffort community language courses
documentation projects
orthography development
spokenIn Sweden
status severely endangered
subclassOf Western Sámi language
subfamily Sámi
traditionalRegion Arjeplog
Arjeplog Municipality
Norrbotten County
northern Sweden
UNESCOStatus severely endangered
usedBy Pite Sámi community
linked to: Pite Sámi
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (17)

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

Sámi hasLanguage Pite Sámi
Northern Sweden hasIndigenousLanguage Pite Sami
subject linked to: northern Sweden
linked to: Pite Sámi
Sami languages hasMember Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Ume Sami closelyRelatedTo Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Finno-Ugric languages hasMember Pite Sami language
linked to: Pite Sámi
Pite Sámi usedBy Pite Sámi community
linked to: Pite Sámi
Lule Sami closelyRelatedTo Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Northern Ume Sami closelyRelatedTo Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Western Sami languages hasMember Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Central Sami languages hasPart Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Central Sami languages hasNotableVariety Pite Sami
linked to: Pite Sámi
Arjeplog regionalLanguage Pite Sámi
Lule Sámi closelyRelatedTo Pite Sámi
North Sámi closelyRelatedTo Pite Sámi
Western Sámi language hasPart Pite Sámi language
linked to: Pite Sámi