Selkup people
чумэлӷу́ла, тюйкула, шё̄шӄула, сӱ̄ссыӷӯла, шöйӄумыт | |
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Selkup man from Obdorsk, Ob river | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Russia | 4,249 (2002) |
| 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. They live in the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tyumen Oblast (with Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).