Sma

Also Known As: Northern Lappish,Lapp,Norwegian Lapp,Southern Lapp,Same,Samic,Saami,Saami, South Description: Southern Sami is the south-westernmost of the Sami languages. It is a seriously endangered language; the last strongholds of this language are the municipalities of Snåsa and Hattfjelldal in Norway. There are approximately 2000 people considered ethnically Southern Sami in Norway and Sweden, but only approximately 500 of them can fluently speak the language. Southern Sami is one of the six Sami languages that has an official written language, but only a few books have been published for the language, one of which is a good-size Southern Sami-Norwegian dictionary. Southern Sami uses the latin alphabet: A/a, B/b, D/d, E/e, F/f, G/g, H/h, I/i, (Ï/ï), J/j, K/k, L/l, M/m, N/n, O/o, P/p, R/r, S/s, T/t, U/u, V/v, Y/y, Æ/æ, Ø/ø, Å/å An alternative orthography replaces Æ/æ with Ä/ä and Ø/ø with Ö/ö. The variants Ä/ä, Ö/ö are used in Sweden, Æ/æ, Ø/ø in Norway, in accordance with the usage in Swedish and Norwegian. The Ï/ï represents a back version of I/i, many texts do not distinguish between the two. C/c, Q/q, W/w, X/x, Z/z are used in words of foreign origin. Southern Sami has two dialects, the northern and the southern dialect. The phonological differences between the dialects are..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Saami, South Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/sma/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png

Overview Main Country: Sweden Spoken In: Regions: Europe ISO 639-3 Code: sma Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Uralic Group     Finno-Ugric Group       Finno-Permic Group         Finno-Cheremisic Group           Finno-Mordvinic Group             Finno-Lappic Group               Lappic Group                 Southern Lappic Group                   Saami, South Language