The Unified Northern Alphabet is the result of a systematic study by the Institute of the Peoples of the North, starting in 1926. The alphabet was used ca. 1932–1937, before being replaced by a Cyrillic spelling. A subset of the Unified Northern Alphabet forms a common orthography for the three Sámi languages spoken on the Kola Peninsula.
This orthography was used by Zakhary Efimovich Chernyakov in the 1933 Kola Sámi ABC Book, Saam̦ Bukvaŗ.Chernyakov, 1933. A dedicated Kildin Sámi primer followed in 1934, written by Petr Nikolaevich Ƶuļov.Ƶuļov, 1934. The same year, Natalia Popova’s arithmetic textbook was published in Kildin Sámi,Popova, 1934. as well as a translation of L. Saveļjev’s Koht jemne miļt vьjet ("How People Travel the Land").Saveļjev, 1934. A translation of Evgeny Charushin’s Jeljes poak jemnen (“Animals of Hot Countries”)Charushin, 1935. came out in 1935.Kert, 1975, p. 210.
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Chernyakov, Z.E. (1933). Saam̦ Bukvaŗ [Sami ABC Book]. Uꞓpedgiz.
Davidov, I.D., Alkor, P.Y. (Eds.). (1932). Материалы 1 Всесоюзной Конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера [Proceedings of the 1st All-Union Conference on the Development of Languages and Writing of the Peoples of the North]. Institute of the Peoples of the North. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from archive.org
Kert, G. M. (1975). Saamskij jazyk [Sámi language]. In V. Lytkin (Ed.), Osnovy finno-ugorskogo jazykoznanija. Pribaltijsko-finskie, saamskij i mordovskie jazyki, pp. 203–247. Akademija Nauk SSSR, Institut Jazukoznanija.
Partanen, N., Rießler, M. (2019). An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet. ACL Anthology. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from aclanthology.org
Popova, N. S. (1934). Olhьs̷ s̷kola varas arifmetika: opnuvәm kniga: vәsmus pieļ: vәsmus egk opnuvmus [Arithmetic textbook: for primary school: part one: first year of study]. Uꞓpedgiz. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi
Saveļjev, L. (1934). Koht jemne miļt vьjet [How people travel on earth]. Ogiz-Antmuꞩ Paŗn Literatura. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi
Ƶuļov, P.N. (1934). Kniga logkɘm guejka: vɘsmus pieļ vɘsmus egest opnuvmus [Reading book: Part 1: 1st Grade]. Rațkmus Uꞓpedgizɘst. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi
