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ALSO KNOWN AS		Ahkkil, Babino Saami, Akkalansaame, ču´kksuâlis, бабинский саамский язык, Аккала, Babinsk, Akkala Sami,
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Saami
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sia
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Information from: “Kola Sami language revitalization – opportunities and challenges” (392-421) . Scheller, Elisabeth (2013) , Andersson, Kajsa ·

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
80
SEMI SPEAKERS
Several
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"Rantala (2009) reports that the last Akkala Sami speaker died in 2003. Nevertheless, my investigations show that there is at least one person aged 70 years with good knowledge of Akkala Sami and using Akkala Sami actively in conversations with active Kildin Sami speakers. In addition to that I estimate that there are several persons with passive knowledge of Akkala Sami on different levels...There is a group of middle-aged Akkala Sami in Ëna who are learning Kildin Sami as an 'intermediate language', hoping to switch to Akkala Sami more easily after they have acquired a good knowledge of Kildin Sami."

TRANSMISSION

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"In 2010 the Akkala Sami in Ëna established an office that functions as a language centre and where language courses and other language revitalisation measures are taking place. Today there is no teaching of Akkala Sami, but there is an Akkala Sami grammar (Zajkov 1987) and there are audio recordings of Akkala Sami collected by the Russian Academy of Science in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (AA KRC 2010) that could be used to revitalise the language."

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
8
Native speakers worldwide

Dormant
0
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"According to information from different Saami and non-Saami individuals, the last speaker of Akkala passed away in 2003."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Russia, Murmansk oblast

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Mainland near the Kola peninsula

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
CHILDREN
0
ELDERS
1
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"There were eight speakers in the early 1990s, all elderly, and according to a recent report, now only one speaker is known to be living."

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Kola Peninsula, Lovorenzo

Dormant
0
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
100
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"Last known speaker died in 2003." Ethnic population figures from (1995 M. Krauss).

DATE OF INFO: 1995

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Some descendants of Akkala Saami speak Kildin Saami [sjd] but most have shifted to Russian [rus] (Salminen 2007)."

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Murmanskaya Oblast’: southwest Kola peninsula."

	Artes et linguae		16	2013	Kola Sami language revitalization – opportunities and challenges	L’Image du Sápmi II: études comparées / textes réunis par Kajsa Andersson. Humanistica Oerebroensia	392-421	Andersson, Kajsa			Örebro		Scheller, Elisabeth			80	1		1-9	"Rantala (2009) reports that the last Akkala Sami speaker died in 2003. Nevertheless, my investigations show that there is at least one person aged 70 years with good knowledge of Akkala Sami and using Akkala Sami actively in conversations with active Kildin Sami speakers. In addition to that I estimate that there are several persons with passive knowledge of Akkala Sami on different levels...There is a group of middle-aged Akkala Sami in Ëna who are learning Kildin Sami as an 'intermediate language', hoping to switch to Akkala Sami more easily after they have acquired a good knowledge of Kildin Sami."	Several					Critically Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	"In 2010 the Akkala Sami in Ëna established an office that functions as a language centre and where language courses and other language revitalisation measures are taking place. Today there is no teaching of Akkala Sami, but there is an Akkala Sami grammar (Zajkov 1987) and there are audio recordings of Akkala Sami collected by the Russian Academy of Science in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s (AA KRC 2010) that could be used to revitalise the language."
203645659				2005	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages				E-book	RoutledgeCurzon			Christopher Moseley	Moseley, Christopher. 2005. "Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages." RoutledgeCurzon.			1		1-9	"There were eight speakers in the early 1990s, all elderly, and according to a recent report, now only one speaker is known to be living."		1				Critically Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15		15	Kola Peninsula, Lovorenzo
973-3-932406-26-3	Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik			2007	Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages	Språk og språkforhold i Sápmi	39–82	Tove Bull and Jurij Kusmenko and Michael Rießler		Nordeuropa-Institut der Humbolt-Universität		https://www.academia.edu/5817518/Documenting_the_endangered_Kola_Saami_languages	Michael Riessler and Joshua Wilbur				0			"According to information from different Saami and non-Saami individuals, the last speaker of Akkala passed away in 2003."			Russian		All	Dormant ()				Russia, Murmansk oblast	Mainland near the Kola peninsula	67.774470, 32.126267
		3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger					UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub																	67.5809,31.668
					World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			8		1-9							Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		18th		2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition			Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig		SIL International	Dallas, Texas	http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.		100	0	1995		"Last known speaker died in 2003." Ethnic population figures from (1995 M. Krauss).				"Some descendants of Akkala Saami speak Kildin Saami [sjd] but most have shifted to Russian [rus] (Salminen 2007)."		Dormant ()				Russia	"Murmanskaya Oblast’: southwest Kola peninsula."

Akkala Saami

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Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

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Akkala Saami

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Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

8

Dormant

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Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Dormant

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