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Siberian languages may refer to any languages spoken in Siberia, including: Eskaleut languages , spoken in northeastern Siberia Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages , spoken in Chukotka and Kamchatka
The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia.They are not known to have any genetic relationship to each other; their only common link is that they are held to have antedated the more dominant languages, particularly Tungusic and latterly Turkic languages, that have largely displaced them.
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A Chukchi speaker, recorded in Romania.. Chukchi (/ ˈ tʃ ʊ k tʃ iː / CHUUK-chee), [3] also known as Chukot, [4] is a Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
The Yeniseian languages (/ ˌ j ɛ n ɪ ˈ s eɪ ə n / YEN-ih-SAY-ən; sometimes known as Yeniseic, Yeniseyan, or Yenisei-Ostyak; [notes 2] occasionally spelled with -ss-) are a family of languages that are spoken by the Yeniseian people in the Yenisei River region of central Siberia.
The Tungusic languages / t ʊ ŋ ˈ ɡ ʊ s ɪ k / (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples. Many Tungusic languages are endangered.
The Siberian Turkic or Northeastern Common Turkic languages, are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family. The following table is based upon the classification scheme presented by Lars Johanson (1998). [ 1 ]
Selkup is the language of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family.It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia).