Jump to content

Kamas language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Inter&anthro (talk | contribs) at 01:57, 19 October 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Kamassian
Native toRussia
EthnicityKamasins
Extinct1989, with the death of Klavdiya Plotnikova
Uralic
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
xas – Kamassian & Koibal
zkb – Koibal
zkb
Glottologkama1377
ELPKamas

Kamassian is an extinct Samoyedic language, included by convention in the Southern group together with Mator and Selkup (although this does not constitute an actual subfamily). It had two dialects, Kamassian (also known as Kamas) and Koibal. The last native speaker of the Kamassian dialect, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, east of the Ural mountains, by Kamasins.

The term Koibal is also used as the ethnonym for the Kamas people who shifted to the Turkic Khakas language; the modern Koibal people are mixed Samoyed–KhakasYeniseian.

References

  • Britannica, 1984 Edition, Vol. 18, p. 1025
  • Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR. p. 109

Footnotes