Yugh language

Yugh
Sym Ket
D'uk
Pronunciation	[ɟuk]
Native to	Russia
Region	Yenisei River
Ethnicity	Yugh people
Extinct	late 20th century[1]
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Yeniseian Northern Yeniseian Yugh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yug
Glottolog	yugh1239[2] yugh1240  (additional bibliography)[3]

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] 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 non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. In the 2010 census only one ethnic Yugh was counted.^[4]

Notes

1. Vajda, Edward J. "The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples". Retrieved 2006-10-27.
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yugh". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yugh (bookkeeping)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. 2010 census data

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.

External links

• Yugh basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database