Tundra is a vast treeless zone mostly flat, of around 10 % of Earth´s surface, lying between the ice cap and the timberline of northernmost part of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil, with very long and severe winters and very short and soft summers. Its indigenous communities are called "Arctic peoples" or "Circumpolar peoples".

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1.Inuit-Aleut	IÑUPIAT ↗ INUVIALUT ↗ NETSILIK ↗ IGLULIK ↗ BAFFIN INUIT ↗ GREENLAND INUIT ↗	-	-	-	-
2. Finno-Ugric	TUNDRA SÁMI ↗ COASTAL SAMI ↗	-	-	-	-
3. Samoyedic	ENETS ↗ NENETS ↗ NGANASAN ↗	-	-	-	-
4. Tungusic	EVENS ↗	-	-	-	-
5. Chukotko-      Kamchatkan	CHUKCHI ↗ KORYAK ↗	-	-	-	-