Kemi Sami language
| Kemi Sami | |
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| Native to | Finland |
| Extinct | ca. 1900 |
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Uralic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
sjk |
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| Glottolog | kemi1239 |
Kemi Sami was a Sami language that was originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sami siidas around Kuusamo.
A complex of local variants which had a distinct identity from other Sami dialects, but existed in a linguistic continuum between Inari Sami and Skolt Sami (some Kemi groups sounded more like Inari, and some more like Skolt, due to geographic proximity).
Extinct now for over 100 years, few written examples of Kemi Sami survive. Johannes Schefferus's Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sami Olof (Mattsson) Sirma, "Guldnasas" and "Moarsi favrrot". A short vocabulary was written by the Finnish priest Jacob Fellman in 1829 after he visited the villages of Salla (Kuolajärvi until 1936) and Sompio. Also, the following translation of the Lord's Prayer survives:
Lord's Prayer, village of Sompio (Sodankylä)
This is Sirma's first poem Guldnasas; a Sami love story which he sang to spur on his reindeer so that they will run faster:
Joå oudas Jordee skådhe
nurta wåta wålgesz skådhe.
Abeide kockit laidiede,
Faurågåidhe sadiede.
Ällå momiaiat kuckan, kaigawarre,
patså buårest källueiaure tuun,
Mådhe påti millasan,
kaiga wånaide waiedin.
Ågå niråma buårebåst,
nute åtzån sargabåst.
Taide sun monia lij aigåmasz
sarågåin uålgatamasz
josz iuå sarga åinasim
kiurasam katzesim.
Kulnasasz, nirasam,
kätze, åinakåsz tun su salm.
Det är tid för oss att fara,
ge oss av åt nordanskogen,
skynda över stora myrar,
färdas till de fagras hem.
Håll mig ej länge, Kajgavare,
far nu väl, du Kälvejaure!
Mycket rinner mig i hågen,
när jag far på Kajgas vik.
Ränn nu raskare, min vaja,
så att vi dess förr må hinna
fram till den som Sarak sände,
ödet ämnade åt mig.
Ack, att snart jag såge henne,
finge titta på min älskling!
Kulnasatj, min lilla vaja,
ser du hennes ögon nu?
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