Saami, Kildin

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Saami speaker and ethnic population in the 2021 census

Aleksandr Natarov, Mon, 2023-02-06 14:02
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Population
ISO 639-3: 
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The 2021 census registered 259 Saami speakers and 1,550 ethnic Saami in the Russian Federation. The census does not distinguish between the various Saami groups and lumps them all in one.

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Kildin alphabet

Jennifer, Sun, 2022-08-14 11:41
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Writing
ISO 639-3: 
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Kildin Saami uses the Cyrillic alphabet but it includes a number of additional/modified non-Slavic letters such as а̄ ӓ ǟ е̄ ё̄ ӣ о̄ ӯ э̄ ю̄ я̄ ӆ ӎ ӊ һ ӈ ҏ to indicate vowel length, palatalization and other features of the language. Some of these letters, such as Ӎӎ, Ӊӊ, and Ҏҏ, are not found in any other language's writing system, and others, such as Ǟǟ, are used in other langauges that use Latin alphabets but not found in other Cyrillic-based alphabets.

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