Skolt Saami: A typological profile

Authors

• Matti Miestamo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-9030

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33340/susa.82233

Abstract

This article presents a typological overview of Skolt Saami based on the examination of the features in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database. The relevant properties of Skolt Saami are discussed and the language is assigned a value for each feature. The features cover phonology, different domains of grammar – morphology, nominal categories, nominal syntax, verbal categories, word order, simple clauses and complex sentences - as well as some aspects of the lexicon. The typological profile Skolt Saami that emerges from the examination of the features is then compared with the languages in the database to see what the typological distance is between Skolt Saami and these other languages.