Kainuu Sami language

Kainuu Sami
Native to	Finland
Extinct	by ca. 1800
Language family	Uralic Sami Eastern Sami Kainuu Sami
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`kain1277`^[1]

Kainuu Sami is an extinct Sami language that was spoken in Kainuu. It became extinct in the 18th century when the Kainuu Sami probably assimilated and shifted to speak Finnish. Kainuu Sami belonged to the Eastern Sami language group.

The original inhabitants of Kainuu were Sami hunter-fishers. In the 17th century, the Governor General of Finland Per Brahe fostered the population growth of Kainuu by giving a ten-year tax exemption to settlers. It was necessary to populate Kainuu with Finnish farmers because the area was threatened from the east by the Russians. The immigrants to Kainuu were mainly from Savo, because of which the Kainuu dialect of Finnish is very close to the Savo dialect.

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kainuu Saami". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Uralic languages

Finnic	Estonian Northeastern coastal South Estonian Võro Seto Finnish Kven Meänkieli Ingrian Karelian Karelian proper Livvi Ludic Livonian † Veps Votic

Sami	Akkala † Inari Kainuu † Kemi † Kildin Lule Northern Pite Skolt Southern Ter Ume

Mordvinic	Erzya Moksha

Mari	Hill Mari Meadow Mari

Permic	Komi Zyrian Permyak Yodzyak Udmurt

Samoyedic	Enets Yurats Nenets Forest Nenets Tundra Nenets Nganasan Kamassian † Mator † Selkup

Others	Hungarian Khanty Mansi Merya † Meshcherian † Muromian †

† indicate extinct languages

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