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Northern Sami

language, modern language

Subclass of	Western Sami
Native label	davvisámegiella, sámegiella
Country	Norway, Sweden, Finland
Coordinate location	67°30′41″N 20°9′8″E, 69°31′17″N 23°24′13″E, 67°10′50″N 37°19′32″E
Has tense	present tense, past tense
Has grammatical mood	indicative, imperative, conditional, potential
Writing system	Latin script, Northern Sami Braille, Northern Sami orthography
Language regulatory body	Sámi Giellagáldu
UNESCO language status	3 definitely endangered
Ethnologue language status	2 Provincial, 6b Threatened
Described at URL	https://uralic.clld.org/languages/16
Wikimedia language code	se

Northern Sami (Q33947) (all lexemes)

Pronunciation respellings

Northern Sami orthography does not indicate all details of the pronunciation. Pekka Sammallahti's Sámi-suoma sátnegirji, of which the entries can be found in the Álgu database, includes additional marks to indicate pronunciation more accurately:

• A vertical mark ˈ (U+02C8) is placed between a double consonant to indicate an overlong (quantity 3) consonant.
• The same mark is used in the combination lˈj to indicate the quantity 3 consonant cluster /lːj/.
• A macron ¯ is placed above vowel letters to indicate a long vowel (ē, ī, ō, ū), produced by diphthong simplification.
• A dot is placed below vowel letters to indicate an unstressed vowel that has been shortened (ạ, ẹ, ọ), which in turn hints that preceding vowels are rising/half-long, and preceding quantity 3 consonants are shortened.

These marks can be included in a representation, that is marked se-x-Q7249970 (with pronunciation respelling (Q7249970)). For example: guossi (L22017), duhtodat (L23258), sámegiella (L558). It should not be used on a lemma, as it's not a true variant spelling.

Inflection patterns

Add these using paradigm class (P5911):

• even inflection (Q56633409)
• odd inflection (Q56633433)
• contracted inflection (Q56633449)

Give the word stem using word stem (P5187) as a qualifier on the statement. The word stem should be given as a pronunciation respelling.

Suffixes

All suffixes in Northern Sami have, in theory, two different forms, depending on whether they are affixed to an even-syllable or odd-syllable stem. These two variants can be indicated as:

• se-x-Q56681944 (with even suffix form (Q56681944)) for the form that attaches to even stems
• se-x-Q56681946 (with odd suffix form (Q56681946)) for the form that attaches to odd stems

See -a/-at (L22784) for an example.