The six literary languages Sami orthography

1 6 literary languages

1.1 southern sami

1.1.1 in norway
1.1.2 in sweden

1.1.2.1 bergsland-hasselbrink orthography
1.1.2.2 current orthography




1.2 lule sami
1.3 northern sami
1.4 inari sami
1.5 skolt sami
1.6 kildin sami

the 6 literary languages

with exception of kildin sámi, sámi languages have own literary language written standard latin alphabet addition of special characters.

southern sami

southern sami follows principle of using majority language of particular country being used in basis orthography , has 2 separate versions: norwegian standard , swedish standard. letters enclosed in parentheses letters used in foreign words. in addition, ï [ɨ] central version of [i]. although difference indicated in dictionaries, texts not distinguish between two. collating order based on norwegian across both sides of border.

in norway

in sweden
bergsland-hasselbrink orthography

the bergsland-hasselbrink orthography in use in 1957 , similar orthography used northern sami during same period:

the current orthography

lule sami

like southern sami, lule sami follows principle of using majority language of particular country s being written in basis orthography , has 2 separate versions: norwegian standard , swedish standard. standard orthography lule sami approved in 1983.

in norway, Áá, Åå, Ńń, , Ææ known used.
in sweden, Áá, Åå, Ńń, , Ää known used.

northern sami

northern sami has long orthographic history, has witnessed no less 9 different versions. recent version approved in 1979 , last modified in 1985:

inari sami

the following alphabet inari sami approved in 1996.

skolt sami


kildin sami

the latest version of official orthography kildin sámi uses cyrillic: