Samoyedic_peoples
Samoyedic peoples
Ethnolinguistic group indigenous to Siberia, Russia
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.