"...several older and even a few younger Kildin Saami use their mother tongue in conversation with family members, relatives and friends. On the whole, however, the number of Kildin speakers is decreasing rapidly from year to year and the language must be characterized as severely endangered. Especially among the younger generation, there is a strong decline in active language competence due to the lack of a vibrant speech community and the lack of social motivations for learning and using Saami."

"Even though only a few Saami seem to use the orthography, each different orthographic variant has its own group of adherents, and they frequently have very emotional views concerning the other variants."

"Kildin, Inari, Skolt and South Sámi languages are all spoken by 300 to 1000 individuals. Although these four
varieties risk being replaced by the dominating languages, they are transmitted to children at home in some families and/or in special scholastic immersion environments known as “language nests” for a smaller number of children, and language emersion camps for adolescents. Therefore, they are not immediately threatened by extinction”

Sámi is used as a supplmentary language in one kindergarten in Lovozero and in "mother tongue" instruction for 2-3 hours/week at one school in Lovozero for grades 1-4 (this is in reality foreign language instruction for the students.) There is a Sámi radio station in Lovozero that transmits 25 minutes/week of Kildin Sámi.

"The Sámi associations in the Murmansk area and the Kola Sámi Documentation Project have produced teaching materials, grammars, an online Kildin Sámi–Russian dictionary, arranged several language courses, conversation circles and immersion education for young people. This immersion education took the form of intensive two week camps during the summer of 2007 and 2008, where the participants were trained by elderly mother tongue speakers who spoke only Sámi to them (Rießler and Scheller 2007; Scheller 2008).”

There are probably less than 300 speakers of Kildin who actively use their language