The
Samoyedic () or
Samoyed languages () are spoken on both sides of the
Ural mountains, in northernmost
Eurasia, by approximately 25,000 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.