Kemi Sámi

E1047470

Kemi Sámi is an extinct Eastern Sámi language once spoken in parts of northern Finland.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kemi Sámi canonical 3
Kemi Sámi people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Sámi language
Uralic language
extinct language
closelyRelatedTo Inari Sámi
Skolt Sámi
linked to: Skolt Sami language
continent Europe
country Finland
distinctFrom Inari Sámi
Northern Sámi
linked to: North Sámi

Skolt Sámi
linked to: Skolt Sami language
documentationStatus poorly attested
endonym Kemin saame
endonymLanguage Finnish
ethnicity Sámi
extinction 19th century
glottocode kemi1238
hasAncestor Proto-Samic
Proto-Uralic
hasAttestation short texts
word lists
hasCaseSystem yes
hasConsonantGradation yes
hasMorphology rich inflectional morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
historicalPeriod early modern period
ISO639-3 sjk
languageBranch Sámi languages
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageShiftTo Finnish
Northern Sámi
linked to: North Sámi
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
partOf Eastern Sámi subgroup
region northern Finland
linked to: Northern Finland
spokenIn Kemi River area
Lapland
status extinct
subclassOf Sámi language
linked to: Sámi languages
usedBy Kemi Sámi people
linked to: Kemi Sámi
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Kemi Sámi usedBy Kemi Sámi people
linked to: Kemi Sámi