Yugh language

Yugh
Sym Ket
Дьук
Ďuk
Pronunciation[ɟuk]
Native toRussia
RegionYenisei River
EthnicityYugh people
Extinct1972[1]
3 (2020)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yug
yug
Glottologyugh1239
yugh1240  additional bibliography
ELPYug
Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages.
Numerals in Yeniseian languages

Yugh (/ˈjɡ/ YOOG; 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.[3] It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three nonfluent speakers remaining,[4] and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 Census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[5] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,[6] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,[7] 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.[2]

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024-02-19), Vajda, Edward (ed.), "8 The Yeniseian language family", The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia, De Gruyter, pp. 365–480, doi:10.1515/9783110556216-008, ISBN 978-3-11-055621-6, retrieved 2024-06-26
  2. ^ a b Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку
  3. ^ Vajda, Edward J. "The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
  4. ^ Gordon, Raymond G.; Grimes, Barbara F., eds. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  5. ^ 2002 Russian census data
  6. ^ 2010 Russian census data
  7. ^ Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения

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