Wikimedia Northern Europe/Northern European minority and indigenous languages

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A joint project of Wikimedia Northern Europe for supporting content creation both in and on topics related to the minority and indigenous languages of Northern Europe.

Minority languages with Wikipedias

Uralic languages

Language	Code	Area of distribution	Status	Key articles (max 10)
Northern Sami	se
Voro	fiu-vro
Livvi-Karelian	olo
Vepsian	vep

Indo-European languages

Language	Code	Area of distribution	Status	Key articles (max 10)
Latgalian	ltg	The use of Latgalian in everyday communication in Latvia according to the 2012 census	Defined in Section 4 of the Official Language Law as a "historical variety of the Latvian language". According to the 2012 census spoken by 8.8% of population in Latvia. Only one mass media that writes exclusively in Latgalian exists (Latgalīšu Kulturys Gazeta).	Latgalian language Latgalians (modern) Latgalians Latgalian Wikipedia Lidija Leikuma – one of leading specialists on Latgalian Latgalīšu Kulturys Gazeta
Samogitian	bat-smg	The area and dialects of Samogitian		Samogitian dialect Samogitian Wikipedia
Faroese	fo
Icelandic	is

Eskimo-Aluet languages

Language	Code	Area of distribution	Status	Key articles (max 10)
Greenlandic	kl

Minority languages in the incubator

Finno-Ugric languages

Language	Code	Area of distribution	Status	Key articles (max 10)
Livonian (līvõ kēļ)	liv	The historic distribution of Livonian light grey (1100s), territory of the last speakers in dark grey (1900s)	Nearly extinct (around 40 L2 speakers at B1 and around 210 speakers at A1–A2), defined in Section 4 and Section 5 of the Official Language Law as one of the two indigenous (autochthonous) language of Latvia	Livonian language Livonians Livonian coast – historic linguistic territory Min izāmō – national anthem Livonian Institute Grizelda Kristiņa – last native speaker Valt Ernštreit – Livonian linguist, translator and poet Dainis Stalts – politician and folklorist Tuļļi Lum – folk band Julgī Stalte – singer and folk musician
Southern Sámi	sma
Lule Sámi	smj
Pite sámi	sje
Inari Sámi	smn
Skolt Sámi	sms
Kildin Sámi	sjd
Ter Sámi	sjt
Kven	fkv
Meänkieli	fit
Ingrian	izh
Votic	vot
Ludic	lud
Karelian Proper	krl
Mansi	mns
Khanty	kca