Kamass
/kəˈmæs/noun
A name for the extinct Kamas language of central Siberia, or for the people who traditionally spoke it.
Did you know?The last known fluent speaker of Kamas, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989, making Kamass a rare surviving label for a nearly vanished cultural world.
Etymological Timeline
19th Century
Russian
камасский (kamasskiy)
“Relating to the Kamas people or their language”
19th Century
German
Kamass
“An ethnographic name for the Kamas people and their language”
19th–20th Century
English
Kamass
“A name used in linguistic and ethnographic writing for the Kamas language”
Modern English
English
Kamass
“An established alternative name for Kamas, an extinct Samoyedic language of Siberia”