Kamassian language

Kamassian
Kaŋmažən šəkət
Native to	Russia
Ethnicity	Kamasins
Extinct	1989, with the death of Klavdiya Plotnikova
Language family	Uralic Samoyedic (core) Kamas–Selkup Kamassian
Dialects	Koibal Kamas Eagle Fat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xas
Linguist List	zkb
Glottolog	kama1351 kama1378
ELP	Kamas
Traditional distribution of the extinct Sayan Samoyedic languages including Kamas[1][2]

Kamassian (Kaŋmažən šəkət) is an extinct Samoyedic language. It is included by convention in the Southern group together with Mator and Selkup (although this does not constitute a subfamily). The last native speaker of Kamassian, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, north of the Sayan Mountains, by Kamasins. The last speakers lived mainly in the village of Abalakovo. Prior to its extinction, the language was strongly influenced by Turkic languages.

The term Koibal is used as the ethnonym for the Kamas people who shifted to the Turkic Khakas language. The modern Koibal people are mixed Samoyed–Khakas–Yeniseian. The Kamassian language was documented by Kai Donner in his trips to Siberia along with other Samoyedic languages. But the first documentation attempts started in the 1740s.^[3] In 2016 the university of Tartu published a Kamassian e-learning book.^[4] The grammar and vocabulary of Kamassian are well documented.^[5]