1st Edition

The Samoyed Peoples and Languages

By Péter Hajdú Copyright 1997
124 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume 14 of 150 the Uralic and Altaic series covering the period of 1960 to 1990. This volume focuses on the Samoyed peoples and languages. Thousands of years ago the ancestors of both the present Finno-Ugrians and the Samoyeds lived together in their Uralic homeland. Linguistics has designated them and their language Uralic. Migration of the Samoyeds in the third or fourth millennium... Read more
1. The Distribution, Habitat, and Number of the Samoyeds Samoyed Society 6. Samoyed Religion 7. Folklore 8. The History of the Samoyeds 9. Samoyed Contacts with Foreign Peoples 10. The Characteristics of the Samoyed Languages 11. Research on the Samoyed Languages 12. Bibliography. Linguistic and ethnographic works on the Samoyeds. Abbreviations

Biography

Péter Hajdú, The University of Szeged