Locale Se Se
Use when working with the Northern Sami (Sweden) locale (`se-SE`) — its endonym Davvisámegiella (Ruoŧŧa), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Northern Sami (Sweden) locale — endonym Davvisámegiella (Ruoŧŧa), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
se-SE - ISO 639-1:
se - ISO 639-3:
sme - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: SE (Sweden)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 5,000
- L2 (additional): 2,000
- L1+L2 (total): 7,000
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, two, other (3 forms).
- one —
n = 1(e.g. 1) - two —
n = 2(e.g. 2) - other — everything else (e.g. 0, 3~17, 100, 1000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Apply Locale Se Fi to Northern Sámi in Sweden, where Sámi is one of five national minority languages, with local rights in the Sámi administrative area.
- Context: Sámi is used in education (Sámi schools), media (Sámi Radio), and public services in the administrative area.
- Formats: Swedish krona (
kr); decimal comma; dates with Sámi month names; quotation marks”…”; 24-hour clock. - Terminology: use Giellagáldu terms; Swedish administrative terms may be glossed in parentheses.
Common pitfalls
- Writing Sámi in Swedish word order.
- Dropping Sámi letters from names.
- The general pitfalls in Locale Se Fi also apply.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Sámi Giellagáldu (https://www.giellagaldu.org)