Uralic family
Northern Sami
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Northern Sami (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Uralic language. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Samic → Northern Sami.
See Northern Sami on the interactive map- Speakers
- 25K (25,000)
- ISO 639-3
- sme
- Glottocode
- nort2671
Most widely spoken Sami language, in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Lineage
- Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Samicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Northern Samic. 1500 CE – today