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When did Samoyedic languages first begin to be written?

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distribution of the Uralic languages — Uralic languages Distribution of the Uralic languages.

The Samoyedic languages were not written before 1930. While Nenets is the only language in this group to possess a native literature, both it and Selkup have been in written form since the 1930s. Currently, these languages are used only occasionally for educational purposes in some elementary schools.12