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Language Comparison: Makassar vs Sami North
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Aspect | Makassar | Sami North |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Uralic, Sami |
Speakers | Approximately 2.1 million | Approximately 25,000 |
Features | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. | The most widely spoken Sami language, known for vowel harmony, consonant gradation, and a rich system of inflection |
Countries | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) | Norway, Sweden, Finland |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) | Latin script with additional characters |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships | Yes, features 7 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, locative, illative, comitative, and essive |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | Proto-Sami |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch | From Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish), Finnish, and Russian |
Dialects | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar | Includes Western Northern Sami, Eastern Northern Sami, and Sea Sami, with phonological and lexical differences |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, Á, B, C, Č, D, Đ, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ŋ, O, P, R, S, Š, T, Ŧ, U, V, Z, Ž |
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