Samoyedic is a branch of the Uralic language family spoken across the northernmost reaches of Eurasia, from the White Sea to the Laptev Sea across the Arctic shores of European Russia and into the Yamal and Taimyr peninsulas of Siberia. Its surviving languages, Nenets, Selkup, Enets and Nganasan, together have only about 25,000 speakers, with the extinct Mator language among its former members. All descend from a common ancestral Proto-Samoyedic language, believed to have begun splitting apart in the last centuries BC.
Facts
RegionAround the Ural Mountains in northernmost Eurasia, from the White Sea to the Laptev Sea along the Arctic shores of European Russia and into the Taimyr Peninsula of Siberia. 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusReconstructed as Proto-Samoyedic, the common ancestral language of the Samoyedic branch of Uralic; the branch's split from the rest of Uralic is estimated to the last centuries BC. 1 Connections
Descends From
Source Wikipedia: Samoyedic Languages
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1. Wikipedia: Samoyedic Languages
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They derive from a common ancestral language called Proto-Samoyedic, and form a branch of the Uralic languages.
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