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Samoyedic Languages

a group of languages belonging to the Uralic language family. The Samoyedic languages include the Nenets, Enets, and Nganasan languages, which are spoken in the tundra zone of extreme northeastern Europe and northwestern Asia and which form the North Samoyedic subgroup; the Selkup language of Western Siberia; and the practically extinct Kamas, a dialect of which is known as Koibal and which is spoken in the Minusinsk Basin. Samoyedic dialects included Mator, Karagas, and Taigi; these closely related dialects were supplanted by Turkic languages and are known only from word lists of the 18th and early 19th centuries, when they were spoken in the Saian Upland region. Samoyedic languages are currently spoken by more than 34,000 persons (1970 census). The Saian Upland and the adjacent regions are assumed to be the homeland of the Proto-Samoyedic linguistic community, which dissolved early in the Common Era.

Most Samoyedic languages have a well-developed vowel system consisting of 15 to 25 phonemes. Consonant clusters almost never occur at the beginning of a word. Some dialects have preserved a mobile stress that serves to distinguish linguistic units. There are frequent morphophonemic changes in roots and affixes, especially nasal-obstruent alternations (n/t, n/?, and so forth), which date back to Proto-Samoyedic. Nouns have three numbers, from five to ten cases (and sometimes more), and possessive personal forms, as in the Nenets form ḿa?al (“your [singular] tent”). Some languages also have personal forms that indicate intent or destination, as in the Nenets form ḿatar (“a tent for you [singular]”); these forms may take predicative endings and are inflected for person and even tense. The verb has three types of conjugations in most Samoyedic languages: objective (transitive), subjective (intransitive), and reflexive. The verb produces a large number of nominal forms and has many moods and tenses. Word order is not very fixed, with subject-object-predicate and definer-defined models predominating. The vocabulary exhibits traces of contacts with Turkic, Mongol, Ob-Ugric, and Eniseian languages. From the 17th century to the present, Russian has been the primary source of borrowings.

REFERENCES

Iazyki ipis’mennost’ narodov Sever a, part 1. Moscow-Leningrad, 1937.
Iazyki narodov SSSR, vol. 3. Moscow, 1966.
Tereshchenko, N. M. Sintaksis samodiiskikh iazykov. Leningrad, 1973.
Castrén, M. A. Grammatik der samojedischen Sprachen. St. Petersburg, 1854.
Castrén, M. A. Wörterverzeichnisse aus den samojedischen Sprachen. St. Petersburg, 1855.

E. A. KHELIMSKII

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No references found	kala-t-en It is probably that once the absolute declension of all Northern Samoyedic languages included three grammatical cases with the following suffixes: Singular (case endings) Plural (numerical markers) Nominative - -t Accusative -m -i Genitive -n -i-t At that the plural suffix -it may etymologically be related to the Finnic plural genitive marker *-it-, e. On the Finnic and Samoyedic genitive and accusative plural by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica As far as Northern Samoyedic languages are concerned, according to Natal'ja Terescenko, in a number of cases the 2Px of the Tundra Nenets indicates definiteness instead of possessiveness. About the non-personal definite function of the Uralic 3rd person ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica	Northern Caucasus Soviet Republic Northern Caucasus Swine Northern Caucasus Turkey Northern Commune Northern Cross Northern Crown Northern Dvina Northern Dvina River Northern European Sea Northern Expedition Northern Fleet Northern Games Northern Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere annular mode Northern Highland - American Legion State Forest Northern Ireland Northern Land northern lights Northern Luo Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Northern Pacific Railway Northern Pacific Railway Co. Northern Railroad Northern Rhodesia Northern Samoyedic languages Northern Schools Northern Sea Route Northern Society of Decembrists Northern Sporades Northern Star Northern Tavrida Northern Territory Northern Union of Russian Workers Northern Union of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Northern Urals Northern War Northern War of 1655–60 Northern War of 1700–21 Northern War, First Northern War, Second Northern Wei Northern Wei dynasty Northern Wei sculpture Northfield Northfleet Northgate Northill anchor northing Northlake Northland	Northern Rockies Educational Services, Inc. Northern Rockies Folk Festival Northern Rockies Heritage Center Northern Rockies Incident Management Team Northern Rockies Information Node Northern Rockies Institute of Theology Northern Rockies Medical Center Northern Rockies Regional District Northern Rockies Regional Office Northern Rockies Venture Fund Northern Rockies Woodworking Guild Northern Rocky Mountain Easter Seal Society/Goodwill Industries Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Northern Rocky Mountains Northern Rocky Mountains Northern root-knot nematode Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Route Export Pipeline Northern Rugby Football Union Northern Rural Area Committee Northern Rural Training and Employment Consortium Northern Sacramento Valley Air Basin Northern Saline, Inc. Northern Samoyedic languages Northern San Andreas Fault Northern San Juan Basin Northern Savannah Biodiversity Conservation Project Northern Savings Credit Union Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Northern School of Contemporary Music Northern Schools Northern Schools Federal Credit Union Northern Schools Youth Outreach Inc northern scup Northern Sea Lion northern sea robin Northern Sea Route Northern Sea Route Northern Sealion Northern Secwepemc te Qelmucw Northern Sei Whale Northern Sei Whale Northern Shen-si Northern Shenandoah Valley Audubon Society Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission Northern short-tailed sheep Northern Short-tailed Shrew Northern Shoshone Northern Shoveler Northern Shoveler

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kala-t-en It is probably that once the absolute declension of all Northern Samoyedic languages included three grammatical cases with the following suffixes: Singular (case endings) Plural (numerical markers) Nominative - *-t Accusative *-m *-i Genitive *-n *-i-t At that the plural suffix *-it may etymologically be related to the Finnic plural genitive marker *-it-, e.

On the Finnic and Samoyedic genitive and accusative plural by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica

As far as Northern Samoyedic languages are concerned, according to Natal'ja Terescenko, in a number of cases the 2Px of the Tundra Nenets indicates definiteness instead of possessiveness.

About the non-personal definite function of the Uralic 3rd person ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica

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