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🧑‍🦰 An indigenous group 🗣️ A Siberian language
Selkup

Selkup

1 9.9
A person who belongs to a small native people in Siberia
  • noun
: selkup
  • The Selkup have preserved many elements of their traditional culture despite external influences.

Examples

  • Many Selkups still practice traditional hunting.

  • Researchers have been studying the language of the Selkup for decades.

  • A group of Selkups celebrated their annual festival in the region.

  • The Selkup people have a rich cultural heritage.

  • A group of Selkups celebrated their annual festival in the region.

  • The Selkup have preserved many elements of their traditional culture despite external influences.

  • Many Selkups still practice traditional hunting.

Synonyms

Ostyak-Samoyed
vsSelkup
  • Archaic
9.9

A person of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin who lives in Siberia

is the same meaning but explicitly calls the person indigenous

Compounds

Selkup language
9.9

A language that the Selkup people speak in northern Siberia

Surface Forms

Selkup singular
Selkups plural

Etymology

Selkup is the name the people call themselves in their own Uralic language, so a Selkup is 'a member of that native people' of Siberia.