The Samoyedic people (also Samodeic people)
[''Some ethnologists use the term 'Samodeic people' instead 'Samoyedic', see ] are a group of closely related peoples who speak
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 ...
, which are part of the
Uralic family. They are a linguistic, ethnic, and cultural grouping. The name derives from the obsolete term ''Samoyed'' (meaning "self-eater" in Russian) used in Russia for some
indigenous people of Siberia
Siberia, including the Russian Far East, is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent, and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia. As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (17th to 19th centuries) and of the subseque ...
.
['' e term Samoyedic is sometimes considered derogatory'' in ]
Peoples
Contemporary
Extinct
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Yurats
Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets language
The Enets ...
, who spoke
Yurats
Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets language
The Enets ...
(Northern Samoyeds)
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* Mators or Motors, who spoke Mator (Southern Samoyeds)[
*]Kamasins
Kamasins (russian: Камасинцы; self-designation: ) were a collection of tribes of Samoyedic peoples in the Sayan Mountains who lived along the Kan River and Mana River in the 17th century in the southern part of today's Krasnoyarsk Kra ...
, who spoke 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 ...
(Southern Samoyeds) (in the last census, two people identified still as Kamasin under the subgroup "other nationalities".)[https://rosstat.gov.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-02.pdf ]
The largest of the Samoyedic peoples are the Nenets, who mainly live in two autonomous districts of Russia: Yamalo-Nenetsia and Nenetsia
The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (russian: Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг; Nenets: Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ''Nenjocije awtonomnoj ŋokruk'') is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Ar ...
. Some of the Nenets and most of the Enets and Nganasans used to live in the Taymyria autonomous district (formerly known as Dolgano-Nenetsia), but today this area is a territory with special status within Krasnoyarsk Krai. Most of the Selkups live in Yamalo-Nenetsia, but there is also a significant population in Tomsk Oblast.
Gallery
Image:P253b Group of Yenisei Samoyedes at Sumarokova.jpg, A group of Samoyeds around a campfire (1914)
Image:Samojede_in_Winterdress.jpg, Samoyed winterdress (before 1906)
Image:Nenets_Child.jpg, Nenets child
Image:Nenets.jpg, Nenets family
Image:Ice-bound on Kolguev - a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island (1895) (14595270719).jpg, A reindeer herd in Kolguyev Island
Kolguyev Island (russian: о́стров Колгу́ев) is an island in Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia, located in the south-eastern Barents Sea (west of the Pechora Sea) to the north-east of the Kanin Peninsula.
Origin of the name
There ...
in 1895.
References and notes
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