Kamassian

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Kamassian is an extinct Samoyedic language formerly spoken in parts of Siberia by the Kamassian people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kamassian canonical 2
Kamasian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Samoyedic language
extinct language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Koibal
Mator
country Russian Empire
Soviet Union
documentedBy E. A. Helimski
Kai Donner
T. I. Belyaeva
endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction severely endangered
ethnicGroup Kamassian people
extinctionCause language shift and assimilation
glottocode kama1365
hasAlternativeName Kamas
Kamasian
linked to: Kamassian

Kamasin
linked to: Kamas
hasCaseSystem yes
hasCorpusType folklore texts
grammatical descriptions
wordlists
hasLinguisticTypology postpositions rather than prepositions
rich case inflection
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant palatalization
rich vowel inventory
hasVowelHarmony yes
influencedBy Khakas language
Russian language
Turkic languages
iso639-3 xas
languageFamily Samoyedic
linked to: Samoyedic languages
languageShiftTo Khakas
Russian
lastNativeSpeakerDied 1989
lastNativeSpeakerName Klavdiya Plotnikova
morphologyType agglutinative language
partOf Uralic language family
linked to: Uralic languages
region Minusinsk Basin
Sayan Mountains
researchField Uralic linguistics
linked to: Uralic languages

language documentation
spokenIn Russia
Siberia
status extinct
subfamily South Samoyedic
linked to: Samoyedic languages
usedBy Kamassian people
writingSystem no native writing system

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kamassian hasAlternativeName Kamasian
linked to: Kamassian