Social:Ter Sami language
| Ter Sami | |
|---|---|
| saa´mekiil Са̄мькӣлл | |
| Native to | Russia |
Native speakers | 2 (2010)[1] |
| Latin script (historical), Cyrillic script (current) [2] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sjt |
| Glottolog | ters1235[3] |
 Ter Sami is number 9 on the map. | |
Ter Sami is the easternmost of the Sami languages. It was traditionally spoken in the northeastern part of the Kola Peninsula, but now it is a moribund language; in 2004, only ten speakers were left. By 2010, the number of speakers had decreased to two.[1]
History
In the end of the 19th century, there were six Ter Sami villages in the eastern part of the Kola Peninsula, with a total population of approximately 450. In 2004, there were approximately 100 ethnic Ter Sami of whom two elderly persons speak the language; the rest have shifted their language to Russian.[4]
The rapid decline in the number of speakers was caused by Soviet collectivisation, during which its use was prohibited in schools and homes[citation needed] in the 1930s, and the largest Ter Sami village, Yokanga, was declared "perspectiveless" and its inhabitants were forced to move to the Gremikha military base.[4]
Documentation
There are no educational materials or facilities in Ter Sami, and the language has no standardized orthography. The language is incompletely studied and documented; text specimens, audio recordings as well as dictionaries for linguistic purposes exist,[5][6] but no grammatical description is available.
The earliest known documentation of Sami languages is a short Ter Sami vocabulary collected by the British explorer Stephen Burrough in 1557; the vocabulary was published by Richard Hakluyt.[7]
Writing System
A spelling system for Ter Sámi using the Latin alphabet and based on Skolt Sámi was developed in the 1930s. After the Second World War this was replaced by a system using the Cyrillic alphabet and based on Kildin Sámi.[8]
Notes
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Ter Sami language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sami Languages Disappearing Barents Observer
- ↑ "Ter Sami alphabet, pronunciation and language". Omniglot.com. https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tersami.htm. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Ter Sami". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ters1235.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tiuraniemi Olli: "Anatoli Zaharov on maapallon ainoa turjansaamea puhuva mies", Kide 6 / 2004.
- ↑ Itkonen T. I.: "Koltan- ja kuolanlapin sanakirja", Helsinki: Société Finno-Ougrienne, 1958.
- ↑ Itkonen T. I.: "Koltan- ja kuolanlappalaisia satuja", 1931.Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 60
- ↑ Aikio Samuli: "Olbmot ovdal min - Sámiid historjá 1700-logu rádjái". Girjegiisá: Kárášjohka, 1992.
- ↑ "Ter Sami alphabet, pronunciation and language". Omniglot.com. https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tersami.htm. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
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