Küdin Sami, also known as Samokatolia, is an eastern Sámi language spoken mainly by the Küdins of Finland. Küdin speakers are found throughout eastern Satakunta, the Küdin Islands and western Aland Islands. Referring to a Finnish study, there are about 4,800 speakers of Küdin Sámi, whom 245,080 of those who speak as a second language (249,880 being the grand total).
The speakers of Küdin Sámi call themselves sämöketölie (applying vowel harmony, anglicized saemoeketoelie).
| Küdin Sámi sämöketölie | |||||||||||||
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| Type | Agglutinative | ||||||||||||
| Alignment | Nominative-accusative | ||||||||||||
| Head direction | Head-final | ||||||||||||
| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Genders | Masculine, feminine | ||||||||||||
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| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
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| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
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Phonology
Consonants
These consonants are used for transcribing the 'modern' standard variant of Küdin Sámi (with IPA notation in brackets).
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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| central | lateral | |||||||||
| central | lateral | |||||||||
| Nasal | m
-m, mt, mk, mp, ms [m̥] |
n
-n, nt, nk, ns [n̥] |
nj [ɲ] | ŋ | ||||||
| Plosive | b [p]
p [pʰ] bb, bm [b] |
d [t̪]
t [t̪ʰ] dd, dn [d̪] |
g [k]
k [kʰ] gg, gŋ [ɡ] |
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| Fricative | f | ŧ [θ]
đ [ð] |
s | š [ʃ] | x
ǧ [ɣ] |
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| Affricate | z [ts]
c [tsʰ] zz [dz] |
ž [tʃ]
č [tʃʰ] |
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| Approximant | v [ʋ] | l | j | lj [ʎ] | ||||||
| Trill | r [r̪] | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
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| High | |||||
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| Mid | |||||
| Low-mid | |||||
| Near-low | |||||
| Low |