Yugh language
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| Yugh | |
|---|---|
| D'uk | |
| Pronunciation | [ɟuk] |
| Spoken in | Russia |
| Region | Yenisei River |
| Ethnicity | Yugh people |
| Extinct | 20th century |
| Language family |
Dené–Yeniseian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yuu |
Yugh (Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia.[1] In the past it was regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate. By the early 1990s there were reported to be only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language is now virtually extinct.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Vajda, Edward J.. "The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples". http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
- ^ "Yugh". Ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yuu. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition SIL International, Dallas, Tex.: 2005 ISBN 1-55671-159-X.
- Vajda, Edward J., Yeniseian Peoples and Languages : A History of Yeniseian Studies with an Annotated Bibliography and a Source Guide, Curzon Press: 2002 ISBN 0-7007-1290-9.
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