Kamassian are kamǝn 'when' and paka 'while', which is a borrowing from Russian (пока). References Citations Sources Britannica, 1984 Edition, Vol. 18, p. 1025. Wixman, Ronald. The Peoples of the USSR. p. 109. External links Kamassian-English glossary M. Alexander Castrén's extensive book on the Samoyed grammar, including Kamassian (in German) Kamassian dictionary and grammar book Kamassian e-learning Kamassian corpus (Audio recordings of Kamass native speakers) Kamassian Encyclopedia on Miraheze Kamas DoReCo corpus compiled by Valentin Gusev, Tiina Klooster, Beáta Wagner-Nagy and Alexandre Arkhipov. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations. Southern Samoyedic languages Extinct languages of Asia Languages of Russia Languages extinct in the 1980s