South Saami
Abstract South Saami, an indigenous language spoken in the central regions of Norway and Sweden, is the westernmost variety of the westernmost (Saami) branch of the Uralic language family. Despite its long history in the immediate neighbourhood of Scandinavian languages, many of the core features of...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0008 2024-09-15T18:32:36+00:00 South Saami Ylikoski, Jussi 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/47094440/oso-9780198767664-chapter-8.pdf en eng Oxford University PressOxford The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages page 113-129 ISBN 0198767668 9780198767664 9780191821516 book-chapter 2022 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0008 2024-07-01T04:19:36Z Abstract South Saami, an indigenous language spoken in the central regions of Norway and Sweden, is the westernmost variety of the westernmost (Saami) branch of the Uralic language family. Despite its long history in the immediate neighbourhood of Scandinavian languages, many of the core features of South Saami stand out as constituting a typologically unusual mixture that distinguishes the language from most western Uralic languages. Such features include, for example, a predominantly SOV word order and the marginal role of the copula. Within the Saami language chain in particular, the most remarkable feature of South Saami morphophonology is the complex metaphony in nominal and verbal inflection, while the consonant gradation typical of other Saami languages is absent in that language. Book Part saami Oxford University Press 113 129 |
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Abstract South Saami, an indigenous language spoken in the central regions of Norway and Sweden, is the westernmost variety of the westernmost (Saami) branch of the Uralic language family. Despite its long history in the immediate neighbourhood of Scandinavian languages, many of the core features of South Saami stand out as constituting a typologically unusual mixture that distinguishes the language from most western Uralic languages. Such features include, for example, a predominantly SOV word order and the marginal role of the copula. Within the Saami language chain in particular, the most remarkable feature of South Saami morphophonology is the complex metaphony in nominal and verbal inflection, while the consonant gradation typical of other Saami languages is absent in that language. |
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