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Samoyedic

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Sam·o·yed also Sam·o·yede  (sm-yd, -oi-d, s-moid)
n.
1. See Nenets.
2. Any of a breed of medium-sized dog originally developed in northern Eurasia, having a thick, long, white or cream-colored coat.
[Obsolete Russian samoyed (samo-, self; see samovar + -ed, eater; see ed- in Indo-European roots), by folk etymology from Lapp sm emne, land of the Sami.]
Samo·yed adj.
Samo·yedic adj.
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Noun1.Samoyedic - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
Samoyed
Uralic, Uralic language - a family of Ural-Altaic languages
Nenets, Nentsi, Nentsy, Yurak-Samoyed - a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia
Enets, Entsi, Entsy, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yeniseian, Yenisei - the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian
Nganasan - the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan
Ostyak-Samoyed, Selkup - the Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed
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The Samoyedic languages form a branch of the Uralic language family, the other branch being the Finno-Ugric languages.
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Samoyedic languages commonly use three cases for the direct object: *m-accusative, unmarked nominative and rarely *n-genitive.
Use of the nominative of Samoyedic substantives as instances of ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
This is well attested and known in a variety of genetic grouping such as Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusik, but among the studies here are demonstrations that they also appear in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu.
Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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