Writing System
Skolt Sami uses the ISO basic Latin alphabet with the addition of some special characters:
| А а | Â â | B b | C c | Č č | Ʒ ʒ | Ǯ ǯ | D d |
| Đ đ | E e | F f | G g | Ǧ ǧ | Ǥ ǥ | H h | I i |
| J j | K k | Ǩ ǩ | L l | M m | N n | Ŋ ŋ | O o |
| Õ õ | P p | R r | S s | Š š | T t | U u | V v |
| Z z | Ž ž | Å å | Ä ä | ˊ |
The letters Q/q, W/w, X/x, Y/y and Ö/ö are also used, although only in foreign words or loans.
The caron marks postalveolars (Š, Ž, Č, Ǯ ) and palatal sounds (Ǧ and Ǩ ). The letters Đ and Ǥ mark fricatives, . The letters Ʒ and Ǯ mark voiced affricates. Skolt Sami has a separate glyph, Ŋ, for the velar nasal ("eng"). Additionally, suprasegmental palatalization is marked by a free-standing acute accent (´) added after the vowel.
A short period of voicelessness or h, known as preaspiration, before geminate consonants is observed, but this is not marked, e.g., joˊkke ‘to the river’ is pronounced . The epenthetic vowels are not phonemic or syllabic, and are thus not marked, e.g., mieˊll ‘sandbank’ cf. mielle ‘to the mind’.
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