Samogitian

Eastern Baltic variety spoken mostly in Samogitia, in the western part of Lithuania
Language language Q213434
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Samogitian

Summary

Samogitian is a language[1]. Samogitian ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (478 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Samogitian is in the country of Lithuania[3].
  • Samogitian's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Samogitian's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Samogitian's instance of is recorded as supradialect[6].
  • Samogitian is a type of Lithuanian[7].
  • Samogitian's writing system is recorded as Latin script[8].
  • Samogitian's Wikimedia language code is recorded as bat-smg[9].
  • Samogitian's Wikimedia language code is recorded as sgs[10].
  • Samogitian's coordinate location is recorded as {'latitude': 56, 'longitude': 22.25}[11].
  • Samogitian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Samogitian language[12].
  • Samogitian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+500000'}[13].
  • Samogitian's native label is recorded as Žemaitiu ruoda[14].
  • Samogitian's different from is recorded as Samogitian interdialect[15].
  • Samogitian's indigenous to is recorded as Lithuania[16].
  • Samogitian's female form of label is recorded as la langue samogitienne[17].
  • Samogitian's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[18].
  • Samogitian's linguistic typology is recorded as fusional language[19].

Why It Matters

Samogitian ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (478 views/month).[2] Samogitian has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Samogitian is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Writing system → Latin script
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → language, modern language, supradialect
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||hi, ps */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
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