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Language Comparison: Sami North vs Zapotec
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Aspect | Sami North | Zapotec |
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Family | Uralic, Sami | Oto-Manguean |
Speakers | Approximately 25,000 | Approximately 450,000 |
Features | The most widely spoken Sami language, known for vowel harmony, consonant gradation, and a rich system of inflection | A group of indigenous languages with complex verb morphology, spoken in the Oaxaca region of Mexico, known for its tonal distinctions and vowel contrasts |
Countries | Norway, Sweden, Finland | Mexico (primarily in Oaxaca, also in parts of Veracruz and Puebla) |
Writing System | Latin script with additional characters | Latin script |
Tonal | No | Yes, with multiple tones distinguishing meaning |
Grammatical Cases | Yes, features 7 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, locative, illative, comitative, and essive | No, but uses prefixes and suffixes extensively to mark grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Sami | Part of the Oto-Manguean language family, with ancient roots dating back to the Zapotec civilization |
Loanwords | From Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish), Finnish, and Russian | From Spanish |
Dialects | Includes Western Northern Sami, Eastern Northern Sami, and Sea Sami, with phonological and lexical differences | Includes many mutually unintelligible dialects such as Isthmus Zapotec, Sierra Zapotec, and Valley Zapotec |
Alphabets | 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 | A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Qu, R, S, T, U, X, Y, Z |
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