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Proto-Samoyedic, or Proto-Samoyed, is the reconstructed ancestral language of the Samoyedic languages: Nenets (Tundra and Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, as well as extinct Kamas and Mator. Samoyedic is one of the principal branches of the Uralic language family, and its ancestor is Proto-Uralic.
The Samoyedic (/ ˌ s æ m ə ˈ j ɛ d ɪ k,-m ɔɪ-/) or Samoyed languages (/ ˈ s æ m ə ˌ j ɛ d,-m ɔɪ-/) are spoken around the Ural Mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 25,000 people altogether. They derive from a common ancestral language called Proto-Samoyedic, and form a branch of the Uralic languages.
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May 11, 2021 · Map of the modern distribution of the surviving Samoyedic languages of Russia. Map from Wikipedia. 1. Pre- & Proto-Samoyed. Proto-Samoyed shows a limited number of reconstructible lexemes, probably around 1000 words based on the works by Janhunen (1977) & Aikio (2002, 2004), i.e. substantially less than all other known intermediate Uralic dialects.
The Samoyed (/ ˈ s æ m ə j ɛ d / SAM-ə-yed or / s ə ˈ m ɔɪ. ɛ d / sə-MOY-ed; Russian: самое́дская соба́ка, romanized: samoyédskaya sobáka, or самое́д, samoyéd) is a breed of medium-sized herding dogs with thick, white, double-layer coats.
- White
- Bjelkier, Samoiedskaya Sobaka
- 12–14 years
- 16-20 kilograms (35-44 lb)
Feb 2, 2024 · The Uralic language family in its current status consists of two related groups of languages, the Finno-Ugric and the Samoyedic, both of which developed from a common ancestor, called Proto-Uralic, that was spoken 7,000 to 10,000 years ago in the general area of the north-central Ural Mountains.
Sep 6, 1999 · The Proto-Samoyed people settled in western Siberia. In this region, they had little contact with other people. This helped maintain a common language and lifestyle among them (Samoyed 42). The Turkic people were the first to come in contact with Samoyed in the first centuries B.C. According to Chinese almanacs;
This chapter describes the characteristics of Samoyedic languages and their background in the reconstructible Proto-Samoyedic. All Samoyedic languages are predominantly agglutinative, but Northern Samoyedic (Enets, Nenets, Nganasan) shows a high degree of fusion in the marking of case and number.