Samoyed languages
The Samoyed languages are spoken by a maximum of 30,000 people in northern Eastern Europe and northwestern Siberia . They are related to the Finno-Ugric languages and with them form the Uralic language family .
The most widespread is the Nenet language , which is also used as the written and official language of several autonomous districts ( Russian округ , Okrug ) in Russia . The languages of the Wald-Nenets, the Enzen and the Nganasanen are spoken by a few hundred people and are without writing. The Selkupen language, also without writing, is the last surviving language of the southern Samoyed languages that were common in southern Siberia. Parts of the ancestors of the Kamassins and other Siberian Turkic peoples spoke South Samoyed until the 18th century. These extinct languages included the Matorische .
List of Samoyed languages
- North Samoyed languages
- South Samoyed languages
Trivia
The term parka for a wind-protecting winter jacket is said to have come from the Nenzische and found its way into common parlance through Russian.
literature
- J. Janhunen: Samoyed vocabulary. Common Amoyed Etymologies . Helsinki 1977 (contains etymological reconstructions)
- A. Aikio: New and old Samoyedic etymologies . In: Finnish-Ugric Research 57, 2002, 9–57 and 59, 2006, 9–34
See also
Web links
- Michael Katzschmann: Website on Nganasan
- Forest Nenets - English Glossary at ReoCities
- Project Negation of the University of Vienna, EVSL / Finno-Ugric Studies: Typology of negation in the Ob -Ugric and Samoyed languages
Individual evidence
- ↑ parka . Entry in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary , Retrieved April 4, 2014