"The Samoyedic languages (/s\u00E6m\u0275\u02C8j\u025Bd\u0268k/ or /\u02C8s\u00E6m\u0275j\u025Bd/) are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 30,000 people altogether. They derive from a common ancestral language called Proto-Samoyedic, and form a branch of the Uralic languages. Having separated perhaps in the last centuries BC, they are not a diverse group of languages, and are traditionally considered to be an outgroup, branching off first from the other Uralic languages."@en . . .