Kamassian language

Kamassian language

language
name=Kamassian
nativename=
states=Russia
region=
speakers=0
familycolor=Uralic
fam2=Samoyedic
fam3=Southern
nation=
iso2=
iso3=xas

Kamassian or Kamas is an extinct Uralic language belonging to the southern group of the Samoyedic languages. The other Southern Samoyedic languages include Mator, Koibal, and Selkup. The last native speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, east of the Ural mountains, by Kamasins.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=xas Ethnologue report for Kamas]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3259/kamassian-eng.html Kamassian-English glossary]
* [http://kamass.efenstor.net Kamassian-Russian dictionary (~300 words)]


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