Klavdiya Zakharovna Plotnikova-Andzhighatova (russian: Кла́вдия Заха́ровна Пло́тникова-Анджига́това,

Kamassian Kamassian () is an extinct Samoyedic language. It is included by convention in the Southern group together with Mator and Selkup (although this does not constitute a subfamily). The last native speaker of Kamassian, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died ...

: ; c. 1893 – 20 September 1989) was the last living speaker of the

Kamassian language Kamassian () is an extinct Samoyedic language. It is included by convention in the Southern group together with Mator and Selkup (although this does not constitute a subfamily). The last native speaker of Kamassian, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died ...

(and thus of any of the Sayan

Samoyedic languages The Samoyedic () or Samoyed languages () are spoken around the Ural Mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 25,000 people altogether. They derive from a common ancestral language called Proto-Samoyedic, and form a branch of the Urali ...

). Her father was a Russian named Zakhar Perov and her mother was a

named Afanasiya Andzhighatova. Plotnikova-Andzhighatova and her parents are in slot 14 on the chart the Finnish linguist Kai Donner made of the Abalakovo Kamassian families.Новые данные о камасинском языке и камасинской топонимике
/ref> Plotnikova-Andzhighatova did not have the opportunity to speak Kamassian after 1950 because she did not know anyone else who could speak it. Despite that, her Kamassian skills were fairly good, and she was a great help to philologists for the rest of her life. Plotnikova-Andzhighatova spoke fluent

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, which she had learned in early childhood. With the decline of her native language, Russian became her only language. This affected her Kamassian skills, especially her pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence structures. Russian influence especially showed in her sentence structures and use of vocabulary: many morphologic forms and syntactic structures fell into disuse.D. Abondolo (1998). The Uralic Languages. Routledge; 1 edition. . .

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