Kildin Sami is one of nine living Sami languages.

It is part of the Eastern Sami subgroup.

It is number 8 on the map listed above.

Kildin Sami is native to the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

According to a 2010 census, there are approximately 340 speakers of Kildin Sami.

It is now considered to be a critically endangered language.

It is spoken largely among older speakers. The language is rarely passed onto children.

Kildin Sami is officially written with Cyrillic script.

The alphabet has been in use since the 1980s.

Here is the Kildin Sami alphabet:

The word ‘tundra’ is derived from Kildin Sami, via Russian.

It is derived from the word tūndâr which means “treeless plain”.

Here is an example of someone speaking Kildin Sami:

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