Locale Sms Fi
Use when working with the Skolt Sami (Finland) locale (`sms-FI`) — its endonym Sääʹmǩiõll (Lääʹdd), 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 Skolt Sami (Finland) locale — endonym Sääʹmǩiõll (Lääʹdd), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
sms-FI - ISO 639-1: not assigned
- ISO 639-3:
sms - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: FI (Finland)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 300
- L2 (additional): 200
- L1+L2 (total): 500
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
Skolt Sámi (nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll) is a Sámi language of Finland with few speakers, written in Latin script with additional letters (å, â, ǩ, ǯ, ʒ, ǧ, ǥ and the soft sign ʹ). It is an official language in the Sámi homeland of Finland. This guidance is lower-confidence; have a native reviewer check it.
Translate ideas, not words.
- Do not translate from Northern Sámi or Finnish word by word; Skolt Sámi has its own vocabulary and grammar. Use terms developed by the language community and the Sámi Parliament.
- Re-express idioms by meaning.
Grammar and register.
- Cases, consonant gradation, and a dual number; no articles or grammatical gender; a negative verb.
- No formal singular "you"; politeness is carried by tone.
Orthography and typography.
- The soft sign (U+02B9
ʹ) is a letter-like modifier that marks palatalization; do not replace it with an apostrophe or a quote mark. - Use å, â, ǩ, ǯ, ʒ, ǧ, ǥ exactly; never replace them with ASCII look-alikes.
- Finnish conventions: euro, decimal comma, dates
17.10.2026, quotation marks”…”.
Common pitfalls
- Replacing the soft sign with an apostrophe.
- Replacing special letters with ASCII.
- Translating through Finnish.
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 Parliament of Finland (Sámediggi)
- Divvun and Giellatekno, language technology resources (https://divvun.no)