Akkala Sámi is an Eastern Sámi language that was spoken in the villages of Aʼkkel (Бабинский), Čuʼkksuâl (Экостровский) and Sââʼrvesjäuʼrr (Гирвасозеро) in the centre of the Kola Peninsula, which is part of the Murmansk Oblast in the northwest of Russia. The last fluent native speaker of Akkala Sámi, Maria Sergina, died in 2003, and the language was classified as extinct by UNESCO in 2010. However, there are still a few elderly people with some knowledge of the language. Most Akkala Sámi people live in the village of Yona (Ёна) in the Kovdorsky District of the Murmansk Oblast.
Akkala Sámi is also known as Babin Sámi. It was formerly considered to be a dialect of Kildin Sámi, and is now classified as a separate language. It is closely related to Skolt Sámi, and is written with the Latin script, with some letters from the IPA and Cyrillic. It can also be written with the Cyrillic script.
Download alphabet charts for Akkala Sámi (Excel)
Details of the Cyrillic alphabet for Akkala Sámi provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Source: https://saami.su/biblioteka/saamskij-yazyk/babinskij-dialekt-saamskogo-yazyka.html
Note: a number of diacritics are used in the sample text which do not appear in the alphabet chart above. I am not sure what the signify.
Information about Akkala Sámi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkala_Sámi
https://www.sgr.fi/fi/files/original/f57ffb28586762170a1ee2002de8d2ef.pdf
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бабинский_саамский_язык
http://www.language-archives.org/language/sia
https://kolasapmi.com/2024/12/05/бабинский-диалект-саами-языка-исслед/
https://minlang.iling-ran.ru/lang/babinskiy-saamskiy-yazyk
Akkala Sámi, Inari Saami, Kildin Sámi, Lule Sámi, Northern Sámi, Pite Sámi, Skolt Sámi, Southern Sámi, Ter Sámi, Ume Sámi
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 29.11.22. Last modified: 09.01.25
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