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Northern Saami (also, Sámi or Sami, formerly Lapp) can be divided into a three major dialect groups: Torne, Finnmark and Sea Saami. All together, North Saami spreads out across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Depending on the survey, this estimate can bring the population of North Saami speakers to be somewhere between 15,000 speakers and 25,000 speakers.
Northern Saami makes use of the latin alphabet, and contains the following characters: A/a, Á/á, B/b, C/c, Č/č, D/d, Ð/đ, E/e, F/f, G/g, H/h, I/i, J/j, K/k, L/l, M/m, N/n, Ŋ/ŋ, O/o, P/p, R/r, S/s, Š/š, T/t, Ŧ/ŧ, U/u, V/v, Z/z, Ž/ž.
Possible variants may be found for Č/č, Š/š, and Ž/ž, in which they are written as (respectively): Ć/ć, Ś/ś, and Ź/ź. Sometimes, Á/á is written instead as À/à.
Wikipedia articles written in this language are located at the
Northern Sami Wikipedia
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