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Northern Sami language


Name	Northern Sami
Nativename	davvisámegiella / sámegiella
Region	Norway, Sweden, Finland
Speakers	15,000-25,000 (estimated)
Iso1	se
Iso2	sme
Iso3	sme
Familycolor	Uralic
Fam2	Sami
Fam3	Western
Script	Latin alphabet
Mapcaption	Northern Sami is 5 on this map.
Notice	IPA

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Northern or North Sami (Sámegiella or Davvisámegiella, formerly Davvisámi or Davvisaami; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp) is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000. About 2000 of these live in Finland and between 5000 and 6000 in Sweden.

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