Pite Saami language

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Name (Hebrew)
שפת פיטה סאמי
Name (Latin)
Pite Saami language
Other forms of name
Arjeplog Sami language
Saami Pite language
See Also From tracing topical name
Sami language
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Sweden
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q56314
Library of congress: sh2015000732
Sources of Information
  • Work cat: Wilbur, Joshua. A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014:back cover (Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland)
  • Ethnologue online, May 12, 2015;(Pite Saami: a language of Sweden; alternate names: Arjeplog Saami, "Lapp" (pej.), Pite, Saami; classification: Uralic, Sami, Western, Northern)
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Wikipedia description:

Pite Sámi or Arjeplog Sámi (Pite Sami: Bidumsámegiella, Swedish: Pitesamiska, Norwegian: Pitesamisk) is a Sámi language traditionally spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a critically endangered language that has only about 25–50 native speakers left and is now almost only spoken on the Swedish side of the border along the Pite River in the north of Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur and in the mountainous areas of the Arjeplog municipality.

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