Proto-Samoyed or Proto-Samoyedic is the reconstructed ancestral language of the Samoyedic languages, i.e. Nenets (Tundra and Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, as well as extinct Kamas and Mator. Samoyedic is one of the principal branches of the Uralic language family, and its ancestor is Proto-Uralic.