Arin language

Arin
Native to	Russia
Region	Yenisei River
Extinct	18th century
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Yeniseian Southern Yeniseian Arin–Pumpokol Arin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xrn
Linguist list	xrn
Glottolog	arin1243[1]

Arin was a Yeniseian language spoken in Russia along the Yenisei River between Yeniseysk and Krasnoyarsk. It is classified as a Southern Yeniseian language, along with Kott and Assan.

It is believed that the term Ar or Ara was used by speakers of Arin to refer to themselves. It became extinct in the 18th Century.^[2]

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Arin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Georg, Stefan (2007). A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak). Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental. ISBN 978-1-901903-58-4.

External links

• Arin basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database