Samoyedic peoples

Samoyedic peoples


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The term Samoyedic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking a Samoyedic language.

They are a subgroup of Uralic peoples.

Peoples

Samoyedic peoples include:

*Northern Samoyedic peoples
**Nenets
**Enets
**Nganasan

*Southern Samoyedic peoples
**Selkup
**Kamasins or Kamas (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
**Mator or Motor (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
**Koibal (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)

Location

The largest of these peoples are Nenets numbering 34,000. They live in three autonomous districts of Russia: Nenetsia, Yamalia (also known as Yamalo-Nenetsia), and Taymyria (formerly known as Dolgano-Nenetsia).

Cultural References

*In Aldous Huxley's "Point Counter Point": "God-thirsty from the spiritual deserts of the workshop and the office, men came as to a temple [to a bar] ...the mysterious divinity revealed itself to them...the shamans of the Samoyedes ate toadstools and were filled with the spirit of Num."

References

*Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.


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