Yugh
Sym Ket
Ďuk
Pronunciation[ɟuk]
Native toRussia
RegionYenisei River
EthnicityYugh people
Extinct1970s[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yug
Glottologyugh1239
yugh1240  additional bibliography
ELPYug

Yugh (/ˈjuːɡ/ 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.[2] 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 fluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. In the 2010 census only one ethnic Yugh was counted.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Yugh at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Vajda, Edward J. "The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
  3. ↑ "2010 census data". Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2014-01-28.

References

  • 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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