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Samoyedic

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1. Samoyedic - Noun

2. Samoyedic - Adjective

3. Samoyedic - Proper noun

Meaning

the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

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Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask described what he vaguely called "Scythian" languages in 1834, which included Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Samoyedic, Eskimo, Caucasian, Basque and others. Source: Internet

Extending this approach to cover the Samoyedic languages suggests affinity with Ugric, resulting in the aforementioned East Uralic grouping, as it also shares the same sibilant developments. Source: Internet

Among several Samoyedic peoples shamanism was a living tradition also in modern times, especially at groups living in isolation, until recent times ( Nganasans ). Source: Internet

In: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, vol. 57 however fails to find support for Finno-Ugric and Ugric, suggesting four lexically distinct branches (Finno-Permic, Hungarian, Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic). Source: Internet

It exists in Hungarian and various Baltic-Finnic languages, and is present to some degree elsewhere, such as in Mordvinic, Mari, Eastern Khanty, and Samoyedic. Source: Internet

Several loans from the Indo-European languages are present in most or all of the Finno-Ugric languages, while being absent from Samoyedic; many others also must be for phonological reasons dated as quite old. Source: Internet

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