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Akkala Sami is a Sami language that was spoken in the Sami villages of Ákkel and Čúkksuâl in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Formerly erroneously regarded as a dialect of Kildin Sami it has recently become recognized as an independent Sami language that is most closely related to its western neighbor Skolt Sami.Akkala Sami is the most endangered eastern Sami language. On December 29 2003 Marja Sergina – one of the last fluent native speakers of Akkala Sami – died.