Skolt Sami (Nuõrttsääʼmǩiõll)

Skolt Sami is written in the Latin script, spoken by about 612 people across 2 regions.

Script

Latin

Language tag

sms-Latn

Speakers

612

Status

Living

Alphabet (82)

Auxiliary characters (9)

ÅU+00C5 ÖU+00D6 ØU+00D8 åU+00E5 öU+00F6 øU+00F8 ˊU+02CA ´U+00B4 ˈU+02C8

Combining marks (5)

◌̂U+0302 ◌̃U+0303 ◌̈U+0308 ◌̊U+030A ◌̌U+030C

Unicode blocks used

C0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)Latin Extended-A Latin Extended-B IPA Extensions Spacing Modifier Letters Combining Diacritical Marks

Where it's spoken

Finland, Russia

Notes

ʹ U+02B9 is used to indicate palatalization, ˊ U+02CA or ´ U+00B4 are sometimes used instead. ʼ U+02BC, or ’ U+2019, is used between consonants letters to indicate they are not a digraph: lʼj and nʼj. Some dictionaries use ˈ U+02C8, or ' U+0027, to indicate geminate consonants after diphthongs.