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Skolt Saami is an Eastern Saamic language.
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Skolt Saami is one of the ten Eastern Saamic languages which are still spoken nowadays. Since its members are distributed over three different countries (Finland, Russia and Norway) and not all Skolt Saami aquire the language, Skolt Saami counts as a minority language which is in danger to disappear.
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Almost all of its speakers are bilingual.

Revision as of 12:51, 9 November 2012

Skolt Saami is one of the ten Eastern Saamic languages which are still spoken nowadays. Since its members are distributed over three different countries (Finland, Russia and Norway) and not all Skolt Saami aquire the language, Skolt Saami counts as a minority language which is in danger to disappear. Almost all of its speakers are bilingual.