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. , drawn after Ruhlen, Merritt, A Guide to the Worlds languages, Stanford, California (1987), p. ... , drawn after Ruhlen, Merritt, A Guide to the Worlds languages, Stanford, California (1987), p. ... Map of Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains (Russian: Уральские горы = Урал) 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. ... African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is the landmass composed of the continents of Europe and Asia. ...

Together with the Finno-Ugric languages they form the Uralic language family. Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric (Finno-Permic in blue, Ugric in green). ... 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. ...

Classification

The language and respective ethnic groups include:

Northern Samoyedic Northern Samoyedic languages are a subgroup of the Samoyedic languages. ...

• Enets (Yenets, Yenisei-Samoyed), the tribe by the Yenisei River, spoken by the Enets people
• Nenets (Yurak), spoken by the Nenets people
• Nganasan (Tavgy, Tavgi, Tawgi, Tawgi-Samoyed), spoken by the Nganasan people
• Yurats, formerly spoken in the Yenisei River region

Southern Samoyedic Enets is a language spoken by the Enets people in North Russia. ... The Yenets people, or Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River, many in the village of Potalovo in the Taimyr Autonomous Territory, Taymyria of Krasnoyarsk Krai in western... Енисей Length 5,550 (4,102) km Elevation of the source  m Average discharge 19,600 m³/s Area watershed 2,580,000 km² Origin  ? Mouth  Arctic Ocean Basin countries Russia The Yenisei basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk The Yenisei (Енисе́й) is the greatest river... The Yenets people, or Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River, many in the village of Potalovo in the Taimyr Autonomous Territory, Taymyria of Krasnoyarsk Krai in western... Nenets is a language spoken by the Nenets people in North Russia. ... Nenets may refer to: Nenetsia, an administrative region of Russia. ... Nganasan language, also known as the Tavgy, Tavgi, Tawgi, Tawgi-Samoyed language (Нганасанский язык, or Тавгийский, Тавгийско-самоедский язык in Russian) is a language of the Nganasan people. ... The Nganasans are one of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. ... Yurats is a Samoyedic language formerly spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. ... Енисей Length 5,550 (4,102) km Elevation of the source  m Average discharge 19,600 m³/s Area watershed 2,580,000 km² Origin  ? Mouth  Arctic Ocean Basin countries Russia The Yenisei basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk The Yenisei (Енисе́й) is the greatest river... The Southern Samoyedic languages are a subgroup of the Samoyedic languages. ...

• Kamassian (Kamas)
• Mator (Motor)
• Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed), also called Ostyak Samoyeds; the name can cause certain confusion, because some observers labelled the Khants with the name Ostyaks,

Kamassian is an extinct Uralic language belonging to the southern group of the Samoyedic languages. ... Mator or Motor is a Uralic language. ... Selkup language (Селькупский язык in Russian) is a language of the Selkups. ... Khants (obsolete: Yugra, Ostyaks) are an endangered ethnic group calling themself Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in the autonomous region Khantia-Mansia in Russian Federation, together with Mansi peoples. ...

Geographical Distribution

Samoyed territory extends from the White Sea to the Laptev Sea, along the Arctic shores of European Russia, including southern Novaya Zemlya, the Yamal Peninsula, the mouths of the Ob and the Yenisei and into the Taimyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia. Their economy is based on reindeer herding. They are contiguous with the trans-Ural Ugric speakers and the cis-Ural Permic Finns to the south, but they are cut off from the Baltic Finns by the Russians in the west and, in the east, by the north Turkic Yakut from the Yukaghir. A substantial Samoyed city grew up at Mangazeya in 16th century as a trade city, to be destroyed at the beginning of the 17th century. Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ... The Laptev Sea (Russian: мо́ре Ла́птевых) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ... This article is about the continent. ... Novaya Zemlyas position on the map The archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (Russian: Но́вая Земля́, New Land; formerly known as Nova Zembla) consists of two major islands in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a... The Yamal Peninsula, located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, Russia, extends roughly 700km (435 mi) bordered principally by the Kara Sea on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east. ... OB can stand for: OtakuBoards, a message board, with its main focus set at anime. ... Енисей Length 5,550 (4,102) km Elevation of the source m Average discharge 19,600 m³/s Area watershed 2,580,000 km² Origin  ? Mouth Arctic Ocean Basin countries Russia The Yenisei basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Yenisei (Енисе́й) is a river... Taimyr or Taymyr (Russian: Таймы́р) may mean: a peninsula in Siberia that forms the most northern part of mainland Asia, see Taimyr Peninsula a river in the Taimyr Peninsula, see Taimyr River a lake from which the Taimyr River flows, see Lake Taimyr This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... Ugric languages or Ugrian languages are generally held to be a branch of Finno-Ugric languages. ... Permic languages is a subgroup of the Finno-Ugric language family. ... The Baltic Sea The Baltic region (sometimes briefly The Baltics) is an ambiguous term used to denominate an arbitrary region connected to the Baltic Sea (also called The Baltics). ... The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Yukaghir, or Yukagirs (Юкагиры in Russian; self-designation: одул (odul), деткиль (detkil)) are a people in East Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. ... Mangazeya was a Northwest Siberian trans-Ural trade colony and later city in the 16-17th centuries. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

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