Ume Saami

Name
Named after the Ume river.

Alternative name:
 * Ume Lapp

Location
Sweden, (until recently) Norway.

Speakers
Estimated 10-20 people in Sweden, probably none left in Norway.

Dialects
Slight differences between mountain and forest dialects. In some dialects, *ð is preserved or became d, in others it changed to r as in the neighbouring northern dialects of South Saami. A similar distribution is found for word-final -v vs. -b.

Classification

 * Uralic
 * Finnic-Ugric
 * Saamic
 * Southern Saamic

Other languages

 * Deutsch Umesaamisch