Eurasia · ISO 639-3 sjd · Glottocode kild1236
Kildin Saami
Kildin Saami adds to the 1,000-language board a record from Eurasia identifying classification as a language of the Uralic family, moribund status, and the likely script Cyrillic.
- Language family
- Uralic
- Likely script
- Cyrillic (Cyrl)
- Source status
- moribund
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- RU
- Reference point
- 68.216, 35.835
Open research question
How is Kildin Saami actually used and transmitted across families, education, administration, media, and digital spaces?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.