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Samoyed language

Samoyed language

9.9
A language that Samoyed people speak in northern Siberia
  • noun
: idioma samoiedo
  • Researchers traveled to northern Siberia to document the Samoyed language spoken in remote communities.

Examples

  • The Samoyed languages are part of the larger Uralic language family.

  • Few people today speak a Samoyed language as their first language.

  • The Samoyed language is rich in history.

  • Did you know that the Samoyed languages are endangered?

  • Few people today speak a Samoyed language as their first language.

  • Researchers traveled to northern Siberia to document the Samoyed language spoken in remote communities.

  • The Samoyed languages are part of the larger Uralic language family.

Synonyms

Samoyedic
vsSamoyed language
  • Specialized
1 9.9

People in northern Siberia speak related languages such as Nenets

refers to an individual language within that subgroup
Uralic language
vsSamoyed language
  • Specialized
1 9.5

A language people speak mainly in northern Europe and Asia, like Finnish or Hungarian

is narrower, referring to languages specifically in northwestern Siberia
Samoyedic language
vsSamoyed language
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A language spoken by the Samoyed people in northwestern Siberia

shares identical meaning and is presented as the main database entry
Samoyed
vsSamoyed language
9.9

A group of related languages spoken by native people in northwestern Siberia

is the same sense but used here as the canonical entry

Surface Forms

Morphology

Samoyed + language

The meaning is directly derived from combining the ethnonym 'Samoyed' (the name of the people/language group) with 'language' (a named spoken or written system). This ethnonym + language composition is cross-linguistically common and follows a standard, transparent pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand.

Etymology

Samoyed language may come from an old Russian word Samoyed that people long ago took to mean 'self-eater'. More likely it comes from the group's own name, and today Samoyed language simply means 'the language of the Samoyed peoples'.