Talk:Ter Sámi

Earliest Documentation
The mentioned earliest known documentation of Sami languages – a short vocabulary collected by the explorer Stephen Borough in 1557, published by Richard Hakluyt – is actually not Ter Sami but Kildin Sami. The source mentioned in the article (Aikio 1992) is likely wrong. According to Abercromby, who was the first to analyze this source linguistically, and confirmed by Genetz, who was a renowned scholar who specialized in the Sami languages of the Kola Peninsula, the recorded words reflect a variant of Kildin Saami, rather than Ter Saami, though the venue of Borough’s lexical investigation can be localised in Ter Saami territory.

I would like to correct this info in the article, if nobody intervenes. --Michael.riessler (talk) 10:50, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Zoya Gerasimova
According to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language#Recently_extinct_languages

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_time_of_extinction#21st_century

Zoya Gerasimova died one year ago, maybe the last speaker of Ter Sami, which seems to be under a process of revival. Could any of you confirm that and update accordingly?

Stephen Borough
According to Abercromby och Genetz Borough's wordlist represents a dialect of Kildin Sami, not Ter Sami (cf. John Abercromby: «The earliest list of Russian Lapp words». Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 13/2 (1985) s. 1–8; Arvid Genetz: «Bemerkungen zum Obigen». Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 13/2 (1985) s. 8–10). Samuli Aikio's history book is scarcely a better source than Arvid Genetz. --Rießler (talk) 04:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)