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The Samoyedic peoples (sometimes Samodeic peoples)^[1] 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 used in Russian Empire for some Indigenous people of Siberia, see Samoyedic languages#Etymology for comments of the etymology.

Peoples

Contemporary

People	Language	Numbers^[2]	Most important territory	Other traditional territories
Nenets	Nenets	45,000	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Nenets Autonomous Okrug Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Enets	Enets	200–300	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Nganasans	Nganasan	900–1000	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Selkups	Selkup	3,700	Tomsk Oblast Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	Krasnoyarsk Krai

Extinct

Yurats, who spoke Yurats^[3]
Mators or Motors, who spoke Mator^[3]
Kamasins, who spoke Kamassian (in the last two censuses, two people identified still as Kamasin under the subgroup "other nationalities".)^[4]^[5]

Comments

Traditionally, Samoyedic languages and peoples have been divided into two major areal groups: Northern Samoyedic (Nenets, Yurats, Enets, Nganasans), and Southern Samoyedic (Selkups) with a further subgroup of Sayan-Samoyedic (Kamasins, Mators) named after the Sayan Mountains. This classification does not reflect linguistic relations, being purely geographical, based on the fact that the two groups were separated by a belt of the land of Ugric peoples.

The largest of the Samoyedic peoples are the Nenets, who mainly live in two autonomous districts of Russia: Yamalo-Nenetsia and Nenetsia. Some of the Nenets and most of the Enets and Nganasans used to live in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. Most of the Selkups live in Yamalo-Nenetsia, but there is also a significant population in Tomsk Oblast.

Gallery

A group of Samoyeds around a campfire (1914)
Samoyed in summer dress, in 1781, by Johann Gottlieb Georgi
Samoyed in 1781 by Johann Gottlieb Georgi
A Samoyed, 19th century
Habit of a Samoyed woman and child in 1768, by Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche^[6]
Samoyed winterdress (before 1906)
Nenets child
Nenets family
A reindeer herd in Kolguyev Island in 1895.
Samoyed children

References and notes

^ Some ethnologists use the term 'Samodeic peoples' instead 'Samoyedic', see Balzer, Marjorie (1999). The Tenacity of Ethnicity. Princeton University Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-691-00673-4.
^ Demoskop Weekly No 543-544
^ ^a ^b Unesco Red Book on Endangered Languages
^ https://rosstat.gov.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-02.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ Cite error: The named reference ВПН-2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Habit of a Samoyede woman and child subject to Russia in 1768. Femme Samoyèd". New York Public Library Digital Collections website.

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[SJI-1] Some ethnologists use the term 'Samodeic peoples' instead 'Samoyedic', see Balzer, Marjorie (1999). The Tenacity of Ethnicity. Princeton University Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-691-00673-4.

[2] Demoskop Weekly No 543-544

[UNESCORedBook-3] Unesco Red Book on Endangered Languages

[4] ttps://rosstat.gov.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol4/pub-04-02.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[ВПН-2020-5] Cite error: The named reference ВПН-2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[6] "Habit of a Samoyede woman and child subject to Russia in 1768. Femme Samoyèd". New York Public Library Digital Collections website.

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