чумэлӷу́ла, тюйкула, шё̄шӄула, сӱ̄ссыӷӯла, шöйӄумыт | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 3,649[1] |
Languages | |
Selkup languages | |
Religion | |
Shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Nganasans, Nenets, Enets |
The Selkup (Russian: селькупы, romanized: sel'kupy) are a Samoyedic speaking Uralic ethnic group native to Siberia.[2] They live in the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tyumen Oblast (with Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).[3] Selkups from 1850s until the 1930s exclusively in the scientific literature were called Ostyak-Samoyeds (остяко-самоеды, ostyako-samoyedy). This ethnonym has never been widely used.