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Extinct Samoyedic variety of Kamas Not to be confused with the Koybal dialect of Khakas.

Koibal
койбале сека
Native to	Russia
Region	Sayan Mountains
Ethnicity	Koibals
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Uralic Samoyedic (core) Kamas–Selkup Kamas Koibal
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	`xas-koi`
Glottolog	`samo1299` Samoyed Koibal
Map of Sayan Samoyedic languages

The Koibal dialect is a dialect of the Kamas language or arguably another independent Sayan Samoyed language. About 600 words of the Koibal dialect are known, but there are no grammatical descriptions of Koibal. The vocabulary of Koibal is very similar to Kamas proper. The Koibal dialect died around the 19th century. The Koibals assimilated into Turkic tribes. There was a Koibal-Russian glossary published in 1806. It is possible that it has a SOV word order, as so does Kamas.

Matthias Castrén concluded that Koibal and Karagas have a Yeniseian substratum, after meeting with speakers who used Yeniseian words in their speech.

Kamas proper distinguishes the alveo-dental and palatal sibilants s, z vs. š, ž, however the Koibal dialect only has s and z.

Vocabulary


Koibal	English
kubö	dead
udžüga	small
majna	bear
jugo	a lot
paale	be able to
kuju	brain
dalaj	sea
büze	man
me	we
uja	meat
num	sky
naga	doesn't
too	lake
de	he
oda	hand
ne	arrow
ajo	warm

References

^ Tamás, Janurik. "[SW-3] Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára". Segédanyagok a déli-szamojéd nyelvek szókészletének tanulmányozásához III. Budenz Alkotóház. Székesfehérvár 2021, 161 p.
I︠A︡rt︠s︡eva, V. N.; Eliseev, I︠U︡ S.; Maĭtinskai︠a︡, K. E.; Romanova, O. I.; Institut i︠a︡zykoznanii︠a︡ (Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk), eds. (1993). "Койбальский язык". I︠A︡zyki mira. Uralʹskie i︠a︡zyki. Moskva: Nauka. ISBN 978-5-02-011069-4. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
Gerson, Klumpp. Kamas. University of Tartu.