- Samoyedic peoples
thumb|300px|Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languagesmultiple image
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caption1 = A group of Samoyedes around a campfire, 1914
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caption2 = Samoyed (before 1906)The term Samoyedic peoples is used to describe peoples speaking a Samoyedic language.They are a subgroup of
Uralic peoples .Peoples
Samoyedic peoples include:
*Northern Samoyedic peoples
**Nenets
**Enets
**Nganasan*Southern Samoyedic peoples
**Selkup
**Kamasins or Kamas (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
**Mator or Motor (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
**Koibal (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)Location
The largest of these peoples are Nenets numbering 34,000. They live in three autonomous districts of
Russia : Nenetsia, Yamalia (also known as Yamalo-Nenetsia), and Taymyria (formerly known as Dolgano-Nenetsia).Cultural References
*In
Aldous Huxley 's "Point Counter Point": "God-thirsty from the spiritual deserts of the workshop and the office, men came as to a temple [to a bar] ...the mysterious divinity revealed itself to them...the shamans of the Samoyedes ate toadstools and were filled with the spirit of Num."References
*Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.
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