Pite Sami
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| Pite Sami | ||
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| Spoken in |  Norway Sweden |
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| Total speakers | ~20 | |
| Language family | Uralic | |
| Writing system | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | smi | |
| ISO 639-3 | sje | |
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Pite Sami, also known as Arjeplog Sami, is a Sami language traditionally spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a dying language that has only about twenty native speakers left and is now 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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[edit] Grammar
[edit] Cases
Pite Sámi has 9 cases:
[edit] Verbs
[edit] Person
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical persons:
- first person
- second person
- third person
[edit] Mood
Pite Sami has five grammatical moods:
[edit] Grammatical number
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical numbers:
[edit] Tense
Pite Sami verbs conjugate for two simple tenses:
and two compound tenses:
[edit] Negative verb
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.
Non-past indicative Past indicative
sg. du. pl. sg. du. pl.
1 iv ien iehp 1 ittjiv iejmien iejmieh
iep ittjijmen ittjijmeh
2 ih iehpien iehpit 2 ittjih iejtien iejtieh
ehpien ihpit ittjijtien ittjijteh
ihpien
3 ij iepaa ieh 3 ittjij iejkaan ittjin
iepaan ittjijka
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 dialect.
Imperative Optative
sg. du. pl. sg. du. pl.
1 - - - 1 alluv iellun iellup
allun allup
2 ielieh iellien iellit 2 alluh ielluten ielluteh
alluten alluteh
3 - - - 3 allus ielluska ielluseh
alluska alluseh
[edit] Phonology
[edit] Writing system
Pite Sámi is one of the four Sámi languages that does not have an official written language.
[edit] References
- Lagercrantz, Eliel: Sprachlehre des Westlappischen nach der Mundart von Arjeplog. Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, 1926, ISSN 0355-0230.
- Lehtiranta, Juhani: Arjeploginsaamen äänne- ja taivutusopin pääpiirteet. Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, 1992, ISBN 951-9403-55-8.
- Pite Saami Documentation Project. www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp. 2009.05.03.
[edit] External links
- Sámi lottit Names of birds found in Sápmi in a number of languages, including Skolt Sámi and English. Search function only works with Finnish input though.
- Pite Saami Documentation Project
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