| Also Known As: Lapp,Pite,Saami,Saami, Pite
Description:
Pite Sami, also known as Arjeplog Sami, is a Sami language spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a dying language that has only about ten native speakers left and is spoken mainly on the Swedish side of the border along the Pite River in the north of Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur.
Pite Sámi has 9 cases:
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical persons:
Pite Sami has five grammatical moods:
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical numbers:
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for two simple tenses:
and two compound tenses:
Pite Sami, like Finnish, the other Sámi languages and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Pite Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative and optative), person (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and number (singular, dual and plural). This differs from some other the other Sami languages, e.g., from Northern Sami, which do not conjugate according to tense and other Sami languages, that do not use the optative.
For non-past indicative versions that have more than one form, the second one is from the dialect spoken around Björkfjället and the third is from the Svaipa dialect. The plurality in the other forms is due to parallel forms that are not bound by..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Saami, Pite Language Speakers
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