Kemi Sami language
The Kemisamic language is an extinct language of the eastern group of the Sami languages and thus belongs to the main Finno-Ugric group within the Uralic language family .
| Kemi Sami | ||
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| Period | until about 1850 | |
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Formerly spoken in |
South Lapland / Finland | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
smi |
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| ISO 639-3 |
sjk |
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language
Kemi Sami was to about 1,850 in the southern settlement area of the seeds in Finnish Lapland and in neighboring Russia spoken. The southern border was the area around Kuusamo . Kemi Sami is closely related to the Inari Sami and the Skolt Sami languages. It was written with the Latin alphabet .
Linguistic monuments
The language died out around 1900. There are a few written records. In 1673 Johannes Scheffer quotes two joiks in his book about Lapland in the Kemisamisch language. In addition, there is a short list of words by Jacob Fellmann from 1829 and the Lord's Prayer (recorded in the village of Sompio near Sodankylä ):
“Äätj miin, ki lak taivest. Paisse laos tu nammat. Alda pootos tu väldegodde. Läos tu taattot nou taivest, ku ädnamest. Adde miji tab päiv miin juokpäiv laip. Yes adde miji miin suddoit addagas, nou ku miieg addep miin velvolidäme. Yes ale sowed miin kjäusaussi. Mutto tjouta miin pahast. Talls tu li väldegodde, vuöjme ja kudne ijankaikisest. Amen."