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Samoyedic peoples
Ethnolinguistic group indigenous to Siberia, Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Samoyed (disambiguation).
The Samoyedic peoples (sometimes Samodeic peoples)[lower-alpha 1] are a group of closely related peoples who speak Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family. They are a linguistic, ethnic, and cultural grouping. The name derives from the obsolete term Samoyed used in Russian Empire for some Indigenous people of Siberia, see Samoyedic languages#Etymology for comments of the etymology.
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