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| Kildin Sámi | |
|---|---|
| кӣллт са̄мь кӣлл (kiillt saamʹ kiill) | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Kola Peninsula (Murmansk Oblast) |
Native speakers | c. 341 (primarily Kildin) (2020 census)[1] |
| Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sjd |
| Glottolog | kild1236 |
| ELP | Kildin Saami |
 Kildin Sami language area (red) within Sápmi (grey) | |
 Kildin Saami is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Kildin Sámi is a Sámi language spoken on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern Russia that today is and historically was inhabited by this group.[which?][when?]
The Sámi languages closest to Kildin are Ter Sámi and Akkala Sámi, in Soviet tradition sometimes considered to be dialects of Kildin Sámi. From a strictly geographical point of view, only Kildin and Ter, spoken on the Peninsula, could be regarded as Kola Sámi.[2] It is the largest of the Eastern Sámi languages by number of speakers. Its future, however, appears to be not as bright as that of Skolt Sámi or Inari Sámi because the language is used actively by only very few people today.
- ^ "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 6. Население по родному языку" [Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 6. population according to native language.]. rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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