Kemi Sámi
Extinct Sámi language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kemi Sámi was a Sámi language that was originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sámi siidas around Kuusamo.
Kemi Sámi | |
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Native to | Finland |
Extinct | ca. 1900[citation needed] |
Uralic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sjk |
sjk | |
Glottolog | kemi1239 |
A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sámi dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).
Extinct now for over 100 years,[citation needed] few written examples of Kemi Sámi survive. Johannes Schefferus's Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sámi Olof (Mattsson) Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot". A short vocabulary was written by the Finnish priest Jacob Fellman in 1829 after he visited the villages of Salla (Kuolajärvi until 1936) and Sompio.[1]