Paleo-Siberian languages

Paleo-Siberian
(geographic)
Geographic distribution	Siberia
Linguistic classification	Not a single family
Subdivisions	Chukotko-Kamchatkan Nivkh Yeniseian Yukaghir
Language codes
Orthographic projection of Siberia with the distribution of the Paleo-Siberian languages during the 1600s AD   Siberia   Chukotko-Kamchatkan   Nivkh   Yeniseian   Yukaghir

The Paleo-Siberian languages are several 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 common 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.