Kamassian is an extinct Uralic language belonging to the southern group of the Samoyedic languages. The other Southern Samoyedic languages include Mator and Selkup. The last native speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, east of the Ural mountains. Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether. ... The Southern Samoyedic languages are a subgroup of the Samoyedic languages. ... Mator or Motor is a Uralic language. ... Selkup language (СелÑкÑпÑкий ÑзÑк in Russian) is a language of the Selkups. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ural Mountains (Russian: УÑаÌлÑÑкие гоÌÑÑ = УÑаÌл) also known simply as the Urals and as the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, is a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ...
The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languagesLanguage is a system of finite arbitrary symbols combined according to rules of grammar for the purpose of communication.
The healthiest Uralic languages, in terms of the number of native speakers and national identity, are Estonian Estonian language (eesti keel) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, of which the great majority live in the Republic of Estonia.
Their hypothetical ancestor, which may not have existed as a unified language, is Proto-Uralic Proto-Uralic is the ancestor language of the Uralic languages, including the hypothetical families of the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.