Samoyedic languages
[[Image:Uralic-Yukaghir.png|thumb|300px|Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages
]]The
Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the
Ural mountains, in northernmost
Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether.
The Samoyedic languages derive from a common ancestral called
Proto-Samoyedic, and together with the
Finno-Ugric languages the Samoyedic languages form the
Uralic language family.
The language and respective ethnic groups include:
;Northern Samoyedic
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Enets (
Yenets,
Yenisei-Samoyed), the tribe by the
Yenisei River, spoken by the
Enets people
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Nenets (
Yurak), spoken by the
Nenets people
*
Nganasan (
Tavgy,
Tavgi,
Tawgi,
Tawgi-Samoyed), spoken by the
Nganasan people*
Yurats, a now extinct language that was spoken in the
Yenisei River region
;Southern Samoyedic
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Kamassian (
Kamas), a now extinct language
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Mator (
Motor), a now extinct language
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Selkup (
Ostyak-Samoyed), spoken by the
SelkupsSamoyed territory extends from the
White Sea to the
Laptev Sea, along the
Arctic shores of
European Russia, including southern
Novaya Zemlya, the
Yamal Peninsula, the mouths of the
Ob and the
Yenisei and into the
Taimyr peninsula in northernmost
Siberia. Their economy is based on reindeer herding. They are contiguous with the trans-Ural
Ugric speakers and the cis-Ural
Permic Finns to the south, but they are cut off from the
Baltic Finns by the
Russians in the west and, in the east, by the north
Turkic Yakut from the
Yukaghir. A substantial Samoyed city grew up at
Mangazeya in
16th century as a trade city, to be destroyed at the beginning of the
17th century.
