Paleo-Siberian languages

Paleo-Siberian
(geographic)
Geographic
distribution		Siberia
Linguistic classificationNot a single family
Subdivisions
Language codes
  • Orthographic projection of Siberia with the distribution of the Paleo-Siberian languages c. 1600 AD
    •   Siberia

The Paleo-Siberian languages are a group of four language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia. They are not known to have any genetic relationship to each other; their only widely accepted link is that they are held to have antedated the more dominant languages, particularly Tungusic and latterly Turkic languages, that have largely displaced them. Even more recently, Turkic (at least in Siberia) and especially Tungusic have been displaced in their turn by Russian.

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