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.'' e term Samoyedic is sometimes considered derogatory'' in

Peoples

Contemporary

Extinct

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

(Northern Samoyeds)Unesco Red Book on Endangered Languages
/ref> * 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 K ...

, who spoke Kamassian (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 The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

and Nenetsia. 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

, 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 in 1895.

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