Selkup

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noun

Any member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.

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Meanings

nounSelkup (plural Selkups or Selkup)

plural Selkups

  1. Any member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.
proper noun
  1. the Samoyedic language spoken by these people.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounone of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia

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Ostyak-Samoyed
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Russian

nounthe Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed

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Ostyak-SamoyedOstyak-Samoyed languageSelkup language
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SamoyedicSamoyedSamoyed language

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

French Selkoupe, selkoupe
  • Selkoupepeople
  • selkoupelanguage
German Selkupen, Selkupisch
  • Selkupenpeople
  • Selkupischlanguage
Hungarian szölkup, szölkup
  • szölkuppeople
  • szölkuplanguage
Russian селькуп, остяк-самоед
  • селькуп (selʹkup)people
  • остяк-самоед (ostjak-samojed)people
  • остяк (ostjak)people
  • селькупский (selʹkupskij)language
  • остяко-самоедский (ostjako-samojedskij)language
Swedish selkupiska
  • selkupiskalanguage
Cite this entry
APA

Selkup. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Selkup

MLA

“Selkup.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Selkup. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Selkup,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Selkup.

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