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Preferred term

smeNorthern Sami  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Northern or North Sami (Sámegiella or Davvisámegiella, formerly Davvisámi or Davvisaami; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000. About 2000 of these live in Finland and between 5000 and 6000 in Sweden.

Entry terms

  • Northern Sami language
  • Sami, Northern

ISO 639-1 code

  • se

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • sme

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • sme

ISO 639-3 code

  • sme

Notation

  • sme

In other languages

  • sami du Nord

    French

  • Same du Nord
  • Nord-Samisch

    German

  • Nordsamische Sprache
  • sami del nord

    Italian

  • Lingua sami settentrionale
  • sami do norte

    Portuguese

  • Língua sami setentrional
  • sami septentrional

    Spanish

  • Sami septentrional

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sme

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