Samoyedic peoples

Contemporary Extinct • Yurats, who spoke Yurats • Mators or Motors, who spoke Mator ==Classification==

Traditionally, Samoyedic languages and peoples have been divided into two major areal groups: Northern Samoyedic (Nenets, Yurats, Enets, Nganasans), and Southern Samoyedic (Selkups) with a further subgroup of Sayan-Samoyedic (Kamasins, Mators) named after the Sayan Mountains. This classification does not reflect linguistic relations, being purely geographical. The most numerous of the Samoyedic peoples are the Nenets, who mainly live in two autonomous districts of Russia: Yamalo-Nenetsia and Nenetsia. Some of the Nenets and most of the Enets and Nganasans used to live in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. Most of the Selkups live in Yamalo-Nenetsia, but there is also a significant population in Tomsk Oblast. ==Gallery==

Historical pictures File:058 Description of all the Russian state-dwelling peoples.jpg|Samoyed in summer dress, in 1781, by Johann Gottlieb Georgi File:057 Description of all the Russian state-dwelling peoples.jpg|Samoyed in 1781 by Johann Gottlieb Georgi File:Habit of a Samoyede woman and child subject to Russia in 1768. Femme Samoyèd (NYPL b14140320-1638306) (cropped).jpg|Habit of a Samoyed woman and child in 1768, by Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche File:Samojede_in_Winterdress.jpg|Samoyed winter dress (before 1906) File:Ice-bound on Kolguev - a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island (1895) (14595270719).jpg|A reindeer herd in Kolguyev Island in 1895. Modern File:P253b Group of Yenisei Samoyedes at Sumarokova.jpg|Yenisei Samoyedes (Enets people) around a campfire (1914) File:Ngasani.jpg|Nganasans, 1927 File:Dentedie from Taimyr (43768724740).jpg|Nganasan folkloric group, 2018 File:No-nb bldsa 3f048 Nentser (folkegruppe) kvinner og barn foran inngangen til teltet sitt. (6435260555).jpg|Nenets group, 1913 File:Nenets.jpg|Nenets family File:Самая лучшая фотография 2.jpg|Nenets children, 2016 File:Selkups.jpg|Northern Selkups, 2012 File:MoWm9cA3slY.jpg|Kamasin family, 1925 ==See also==