Talk:Samoyedic languages

message: Вышла в свет "Северная энцклопедия" В январе 2005 года вышла в свет «Северная энциклопедия», включающая четыре тысячи пятьсот статей от «А» до «Я». Is somebody able to make a connetion to this peoples? Why not a servernaya-wikipedia? Wer könnte da eine Verbindung anknüpfen, wäre das nicht eine Sache für die Wikipedia des Nordens? - Ilja • Ilja 12.3.2005
he is saying a "Northern Encyclopedia" (":ru:Северная энциклопедия"?)appeared in January, with 4500 articles. Not sure how this relates to the Samoyedic languages, though. dab (ᛏ) 20:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: They are obvioulsy related names.
Russian name is some kind of misunderstanding by Russians and mistaken attempt to 
get new Russian base ethymology to the word of obviously Finnic origin .
Edelward (talk) 14:11, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suomi and Saami(Sapmi) are related names. 

message: The article on the Tundra Nenets language gives the total number of speakers of that language as a very precise 41,302—more than the figure given here for the Samoyedic group (pace Warbola). Is it possible to update the group statistics? I'm assuming that the round figure here is out of date. Koro Neil (talk) 08:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speaker statistics 

message: — Assignment last updated by Adrizzie (talk) 19:35, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Languages of the World

message: The locatives are not examples of an "object". It is true that in an SOV language you expect this order for copula constructions, but nevertheless, there should be an example with a real (accusative?) object. Alazon (talk) 10:06, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Grammar" 

message: I uploaded an alternative map in Commons which would be somewhat clearer than the current one. It is from https://sites.utu.fi/urhia/language-maps/ and licensed under CC4.0 attribution. However, it shows the distribution a hundred years ago, so I'm not certain whether it is an improvement over the current one. Thoughts? Jähmefyysikko (talk) 16:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not clearer, it is simply different: the current one is only for survived languages. I would suggest to have both, with putting yours on top (with title as in Commons: "Samoyedic languages at the beginning of the 20th century."), because it shows all languages. - Altenmann >talk 20:33, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, that's probably the best solution. To make sure that I am not accidentally taking credit for others' work, let me emphasize that I had nothing to do with the map's creation. All I did was to upload it into Commons. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 03:56, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative map 

message: Many sources brainlessly copy the interpretation "self-eater or cannibal" Not a single Russian dictionary gives the meaning самоед as "cannibal", the Russian word for the latter being "людоед". At the very best "self-eater" could mean "autocannibal" (but this meaning is not recorded in Russian either). Therefore I removed this "translation" from the article. - Altenmann >talk 19:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannibal