Ter Sámi

E82896

Ter Sámi is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by the Ter Sámi people in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Ter Sámi canonical 5
Davvisámegiella 1
Ter Saami 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Samic language
Uralic language
critically endangered language
branchOf Eastern Sami languages
classification Uralic > Sami > Eastern Sami > Ter Sámi
closelyRelatedTo Kildin Sami
linked to: Kildin Sámi

Skolt Sami
linked to: Skolt Sami language
continent Europe
country Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
documentationStatus poorly documented
educationUse not used as medium of instruction
endangermentStatus UNESCO critically endangered language
ethnicGroup Ter Sámi people
linked to: Sami people
hasCaseSystem yes
hasConsonantGradation yes
hasDialect Voronya variety
Yokanga variety
hasPalatalizationContrast yes
hasPhonemicLength yes
hasVowelHarmony no
historicalContactLanguage Northern Russian dialects
Pomor Russian
Russian
linked to: Russian language
historicalUse Tersky Coast of the White Sea
intergenerationalTransmission broken
iso639-3Code sjt
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageShiftTo Kildin Sami
linked to: Kildin Sámi

Russian
lexicalBorrowingFrom Northern Sami
Russian
morphologyType agglutinative language
numberOfSpeakers fewer than 10 speakers
severely declining
officialStatus no official status
region Murmansk Oblast
revitalizationEfforts very limited
spokenIn Kola Peninsula
Russia
status critically endangered
subfamily Sami languages
traditionalRegion northeastern Kola Peninsula
usedByMinority Ter Sámi people
linked to: Sami people
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Cyrillic script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Sámi hasLanguage Ter Sámi
Ter Sami hasDialect Western Ter Sami
linked to: Ter Sámi
Kildin Sámi closelyRelatedTo Ter Sámi
Northern Sami alternativeName Davvisámegiella
subject linked to: Northern Sami language
linked to: Ter Sámi
Ter Sámi ethnicity Ter Sámi
Ter Sami language hasAlternativeName Ter Saami
linked to: Ter Sámi