Ume Saami
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Ethnologue name: Saami, Ume
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Genealogy
Family: Uralic
Genus: Saamic
Speakers
Country: Sweden, Norway
Official in: -
Speakers: 10-20
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Codes
ISO 639-1: -
ISO 639-2: smi
ISO 639-3: {{{ISO3}}}

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Name

Named after the Ume river.

Alternative name:

Location

Sweden, (until recently) Norway.

Speakers

Estimated 10-20 people in Sweden, probably none left in Norway.

Dialects

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.

Classification

Uralic
Finnic-Ugric
Saamic
Southern Saamic

References


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