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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, 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

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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 languages of the ...
, 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 languages of the ...
(Northern Samoyeds)Unesco Red Book on Endangered Languages
/ref> * Mators or Motors, who spoke Mator (Southern Samoyeds) * Kamasins, 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
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 ...
, 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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