Ume Saami | ||
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Ethnologue name: | Saami, Ume | |
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Family: | Uralic | |
Genus: | Saamic | |
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Country: | Sweden, Norway | |
Official in: | - | |
Speakers: | 10-20 | |
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ISO 639-1: | - | |
ISO 639-2: | smi | |
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Named after the Ume river.
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Sweden, (until recently) Norway.
Estimated 10-20 people in Sweden, probably none left in Norway.
Slight differences between mountain and forest dialects. In some dialects, *ð is preserved or became d, in others it changed to r as in the neighbouring northern dialects of South Saami. A similar distribution is found for word-final -v vs. -b.