Kildin Sámi

Language spoken on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern Russia Kildin Sámiкӣллт са̄мь кӣлл kiillt saamʹ kiillNative toRussiaRegionKola Peninsula (Murmansk Oblast)Native speakersc. 341 (primarily Kildin) (2020 census)Language familyUralic SámiEasternPeninsulaKildin SámiWriting systemCyrillicLanguage codesISO 639-3sjdGlottologkild1236ELPKildin SaamiKildin Sami language area (red) within Sápmi (grey)Kildin Saami is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. A Kildin Sámi speaker Kildin Sámi, also spelt as Kildin Saami is a Sámi language spoken on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern Russia by the Kildin Sámi, who have historically inhabited the peninsula. The Sámi languages closest to Kildin are Ter Sámi and Akkala Sámi, in Soviet tradition sometimes considered to be dialects of Kildin Sámi. From a strictly geographical point of view, only Kildin and Ter, spoken on the Peninsula, could be regarded