The term Samoyedic peoples (also Samodeic peoples) is used to describe peoples speaking Samoyedic languages

Samoyedic languages

The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 30,000 speakers altogether....

, which are part of the Uralic

Uralic languages

The Uralic languages constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt...

 family. They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one. The name derives from the obsolete term Samoyed used in Russia for some indigenous peoples of Siberia

Indigenous peoples of Siberia

Including the Russian Far East, the population of Siberia numbers just above 40 million people.As a result of the 17th to 19th century Russian conquest of Siberia and the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era, the demographics of Siberia today is dominated by native speakers of...

. The term "Samoyed" was originally a Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 word, a corrupted form of the ethnonym "Saamod". "Samoyed" in Russian literally means "Self-Eating", but this is not the original meaning and is thus considered pejorative.

Peoples

Samoyedic peoples include:

• Northern Samoyedic peoples
  • Nenets
    Nenets people
    The Nenets are an indigenous people in Russia. According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug...
    
    
  • Enets
    Enets people
    The Enets people , or Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River. Many live in the village of Potapovo in Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the...
    
    
  • Nganasan
    Nganasan people
    The Nganasans are one of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. They are the northernmost of the Samoyedic peoples, living on the Taymyr Peninsula by the Arctic Ocean. Their territory is part of Krasnoyarsk Krai. Their "capital" is the settlement of Ust-Avam...
    
    

• Southern Samoyedic peoples
  • Selkup
    Selkup
    The Selkup , until 1930s called Ostyak-Samoyeds are a people in Siberia, Russia. They live in the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and Nenets Autonomous Okrug.- Outline :...
    
    
  • Kamasins
    Kamasins
    Kamasins were a tribe of Samoyedic people in the Sayan Mountains numbering approx. 500 men, who lived along the Kan River and Mana River in the 17th century...
    
     or Kamas (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
  • Mator
    Mator language
    Mator or Motor was a Uralic language belonging to the group of Samoyedic languages, extinct since the 1840s. It was spoken in the northern region of the Sayan Mountains in Siberia, close to the Mongolian north border. The speakers of Mator lived in a wide area from the eastern parts of the...
    
     or Motor (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)
  • Koibal
    Koibal language
    Koibal language may refer to:*The Koybal dialect of the Khakas language, a modern Turkic language.*Koibal language , an extinct Samoyedic language....
    
     (now extinct as a distinct ethnic group)

Location

The largest of these peoples are Nenets numbering 34,000. They live in three autonomous districts of Russia

Russia

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: Nenetsia

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Nenets Autonomous Okrug is a federal subject of Russia .It has an area of 176,700 km2 and population of 42,628 as of the preliminary results of the 2010 Census , 21,296 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center.-Geography and ecology:The arctic ecology of this...

, Yamalia

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard. Population: -Geography and natural history:...

 (also known as Yamalo-Nenetsia), and Taymyria

Taymyr Autonomous Okrug

Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , or Taymyria, was a federal subject of Russia , the northernmost in mainland Russia . It is named after the Taymyr Peninsula...

(formerly known as Dolgano-Nenetsia).