Pite Sami language

Pite Sami
Bidumsámegiella
Native to	Norway, Sweden
Native speakers	25 to 50 (2010)
Language family	Uralic Sami Western Pite Sami
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	pite1240
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Pite Sami, also known as Arjeplog Sami, is a Sami language traditionally spoken in Sweden and Norway. It is a critically endangered language that has only about 25–50 native speakers left and is now 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.

Pite Sami is a part of the Western Sami group, together with Southern Sami and Ume Sami to the south, Lule Sami and Northern Sami to the north. Of these, Pite Sami shows closest affinity to Lule Sami, but a number of features also show similarity to Ume and Southern Sami.

Pite Sámi has 9 cases:

Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical persons:

Pite Sami has five grammatical moods:

Pite Sami verbs conjugate for three grammatical numbers:

Pite Sami verbs conjugate for two simple tenses:

and two compound tenses:

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 (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and number (singular, dual and plural). 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.