Also Known As:
Southern Saami, Ume Sami, Umesamiska, Umesamisk, Uumajansaame, уме-саамский язык, Ubmejensámien giella, "Ume Lapp"
Dialects & Varieties
Reclaiming Sámi languages: indigenous language emancipation from East to West
Rasmussen, Torkel and Shaun Nolan, John. "Reclaiming Sámi languages: indigenous language emancipation from East to West". Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. https://www.degruyter.com/database/LME/entry/lme.12421415/html. Accessed 2021-11-02.
Critically Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Speakers
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Comments on speakers
About government support of Sami languages in general in Sweden: "In the new constitution for Sweden (SOU 2008: 125 act 2), the Sámi are mentioned separately for the first time as an ethnic and linguistic minority, but not as an indigenous people. Both [Finland and Sweden] have Sámi language acts which give speakers of Sámi the right to use Sámi in contact with the authorities in the Sámi administrative areas. Sámi varieties are used as languages of instruction in some special Sámi schools in Sweden (grades one to six) "
Location and Context
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Writing Systems
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Recent Resources
The collection of links containing texts written in Ume Sami.
A song containing ume saami, swedish, and yoik.