Kildin Sami (also spelled Sámi or Saami; formerly Lappish) is a Sami language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. Kildin Sami has an official Cyrillic script.

Writing system

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Kildin Sami is written in an extended version of the Cyrillic alphabet.

А а		Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж	З з
?	?		?			?	?
И и	Й й		Ј ј	К к	Л л		М м		Н н
?
	О о	П п	Р р		С с	Т т	У у	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц
	?						?		?
Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ыы	Ь ь		Э э		Ю ю	Я я
		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Long vowels may be marked with a macron (¯) over the vowel letter (and above the diaeresis in the cases of and ).

The sounds represented by the letters , /ј, , , , , , ъ, ы, ь, and do not occur at the start of words, so these letters don't normally occur in uppercase, except for all caps text.

The letter h occurs before the letters к, п, т, ц and ч, and marks preaspiration. It is always lowercase, even in all caps text.

and are alternate ways of writing the same sound, a voiceless palatal fricative.

The letter щ occurs only in loanwords.

External links

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• Ethnologue report for language code:sjd
• Алфавит саамского языка (кильдинский диалект)

Sami languagesLanguages of Russia | Samieg Kildin | Lingua sami di Kildin | Kildinsamisk språk | Gielddasámegiella | Kiltinänsaame