Northern Sámi

Endonyms

Davvisámegiella

Alternate Names

Saami (North), “Lapp” (pej.), “Northern Lappish” (pej.), Northern Saami, “Norwegian Lapp” (pej.), Saami, Same, Sámegiella, Samic

Identifiers
ISO code

sme

Glottocode

nort2671

Metadata
Countries of origin

Norway

Also spoken in

Norway

Writing systems

Cyrillic, Latin

Linguistic genealogy

Uralic

EGIDS Status

2 - Provincial

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