Saami, Pite
Facts
- Language: Saami, Pite
- Alternate names: “Lapp” , Pite, Saami
- Language code: sje
- Language family: Uralic, Saami, Western Saami, Central Western Saami
- Number of speakers: 20
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Pite Sami is a Sami language traditionally spoken in Sweden and Norway. It only spoken on the Swedish side of the border along the Pite River in the north of Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur and in the mountainous areas of the Arjeplog municipality.
The Verb
Pite Sami has:
- 5 grammatical moods: indicative, imperative, conditional, potential, and optative;
- 2 simple tenses: past and non-past;
- 2 compound tenses: Present perfect and Pluperfect;
- 3 grammatical numbers: singular, dual, and plural;
- 3 grammatical persons: first person, second person, and third person.
Negative Verb
Pite Sami, like Finnish, the other Sámi languages and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Pite Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative and optative), person and number. This differs from some other the other Sami languages, e.g., from Northern Sami, which do not conjugate according to tense and other Sami languages, that do not use the optative.
| INDICATIVE | IMPERATIVE | OPTATIVE | ||
| Present | Preterite | |||
| Sg.1 | iv | ittjiv | - | alluv |
| Sg.2 | ih | ittjih | ielieh | alluh |
| Sg.3 | ij | ittjij | - | allus |
| Du.1 | ien | iejmien; ittjijmen | - | iellun; allun |
| Du.2 | iehpien; ehpien; ihpien | iejtien; ittjijtien | iellien | ielluten; alluten |
| Du.3 | iepaa; iepaan | iejkaan; ittjijka | - | ielluska; alluska |
| Pl.1 | iehp; iep | iejmieh; ittjijmeh | - | iellup; allup |
| Pl.2 | iehpit; ihpit | iejtieh; ittjijteh | iellit | ielluteh; alluteh |
| Pl.3 | ieh | ittjin | - | ielluseh; alluseh |
Verblist
- adnet
- ballát
- båhtet
- gullit
- gullut
- gåttjåt
- ij
- juhkat
- máhttet
- málestit
- tjerrut
- tjájbmat
- vádtset
- årrot