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South Sami language

Also known as: South Lapp language
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South Sami is one of the Sami languages, spoken by a small number of people in central Norway and north-central Sweden. The Sami languages are part of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family. While there are several Sami languages, many Sami people are bilingual and do not speak their native tongue. South Sami has a unique sound system, particularly its correlative quantity system, which balances vowels and consonants within a word's stem. The Sami languages have some literature and are used in newspapers, but their use in education and government is limited, and they lack a standardized written form.12

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