Kamassen
| Kamassian | ||
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Spoken in |
Russia | |
| speaker | none ( language extinct ) | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
mis |
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| ISO 639-3 |
xas |
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The Kamassen ( own name : kalamaži , kanmaži , Russian kamasincy ) were a West Siberian ethnic group. They have been proven to be extinct since 1989.
The term is derived from the combination of the Samoyed term kama (mountain) and the term az (an old Siberian popular name ), and means: "People in the mountains" ( Uralic language ). Together with the also extinct Matoric language and the Selkupic language , the language belonged to the language area of the southern Samoyed.
Settlement area and history
The Kamassen settled in particular in the Sayan Mountains and the parts of the landscape off the mountains. They were first mentioned in 1735 by Peter Simon Pallas . Pallas had received the order from the Petersburg Academy of Sciences to collect material for a comparative dictionary . He came across the Kamassas and called them "Monticolae Sajanenses" .
The last Kamassen were located in the village of Abalakowo near Aginskoje in 1914 by an expedition under Kai Donner ; this was published in 1920 in an article in the magazine Severnaya Asija ("Northern Asia"). In 1926 the ethnic group, which never recorded their language in writing, was declared extinct. An expedition from the University of the Urals in 1963 found that two women still spoke Kamassian. In 1989 the last of the two women, Klawdija Plotnikowa, died.
Demarcation
The Kamassins are an ethnic group to be distinguished from the Kamassins .
literature
- Harald Haarmann : Lexicon of the fallen peoples (from Akkaders to Zimbern) . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52817-1 .
- Péter Simoncsics: Kamassian . In: Daniel Abondolo (Ed.): The Uralic Languages . Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-08198-X , pp. 580-601.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simoncsics, 1998
- ^ Sebastian Klikovits, Benjamin Haberl: Family tree of the Uralic languages . Seminar paper at the Institute for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna, 2012.
- ↑ Working group cultures of the Ural peoples of the University of Vienna (ed.): The Samojedischen Völker . Wiki of the University of Vienna; accessed on December 1, 2014.