Tersami language
| Tersami | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Russia | |
| speaker | 2-20 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
smi (other Sami) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
sjt |
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Tersami is the easternmost of all the Sami languages and thus belongs to the Urals language family. Today there are maybe 2 active Tersami speakers on the Kola Peninsula in northeastern Russia . About 20 people have language skills at various levels. The language is not only threatened with extinction, it is also relatively poorly documented and described.
Written language
A few Tersami texts (such as the volume of poetry by Voronova 1993) were printed in Kildin-Sami spelling and with the additional letter ы̄.
| А а [ a ] | А̄ а̄ [ a: ] | Ӓ ӓ [ a ] | Б б [ b ] | В в [ v ] | Г г [ g ] |
| Д д [ d ] | Е е [ e ] [ ever ] | Е̄ е̄ [ e: ] [ je: ] | Ё ё [ o ] [ jo ] | Ё̄ ё̄ [ o: ] [ jo: ] | Ж ж [ ʒ ] |
| З з [ z ] | һ Һ [ ʰ ] ~ [ h ] | И и [ i ] [ ji ] | Ӣ ӣ [ i: ] [ ji: ] | Й й [ j ] | Ҋ ҋ [ j̊ ] |
| К к [ k ] | Л л [ l ] | Ӆ ӆ [ l̥ ] | М м [ m ] | Ӎ ӎ [ m̥ ] | Н н [ n ] |
| Ӊ ӊ [ n̥ ] | Ӈ ӈ [ ŋ ] | О о [ o ] | О̄ о̄ [ o: ] | П п [ p ] | Р р [ r ] |
| Ҏ ҏ [ r̥ ] | С с [ s ] | Т т [ t ] | У у [ u ] | Ӯ ӯ [ u: ] | Ф ф [ f ] |
| Х х [ x ] | Ц ц [ ts ] | Ч ч [ tʃ ] | Ш ш [ ʃ ] | Ъ ъ | Ы ы [ ɨ ] |
| Ы̄ ы̄ [ ɨ: ] | Ь ь | Ҍ ҍ | Э э [ e ] | Э̄ э̄ [ e: ] | Ӭ ӭ [ e ] |
| Ю ю [ u ] [ ju ] | Ю̄ ю̄ [ u: ] [ ju: ] | Я я [ a ] [ yes ] | Я̄ я̄ [ a: ] [ yes: ] |
literature
- Scheller, Elisabeth 2011. The Sami Language Situation in Russia. In: "Ethnic and Linguistic Context of Identity: Finno-Ugric Minorities." Uralica Helsingiensia 5. Helsinki. 79-96.
- Tereškin, Sergej N. 2002. Jokangskij dialekt saamskogo jazyka. 02/10/02. - jazyki narodov Rossijskoj Federacii. Dissertacija na soiskanie učenoj stepeni kandidata filologičeskich nauk. Sankt Peterburg: Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogičeskij universitet imeni AI Gercena. (Терешкин, С. Н. 2002. Йокангский диалект саамского языка 10:02:02 - языки народов Российской Федерации Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук Санкт-Петербург.:. Российский государственный педагогический Университет имени А. И. Герцена...)