Yugh | |
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Sym Ket | |
Дьук Ďuk | |
Pronunciation | [ɟuk] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Yenisei River |
Ethnicity | 7 Yughs (2020) |
Extinct | 1972[1] 2-3 nonfluent speakers (1991)[2][3] 3 (2020)[4] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:yug – Yugyuu – Yugh (deprecated) |
yug | |
Glottolog | yugh1239 yugh1240 additional bibliography |
ELP | Yug |
Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages. | |
Yug is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) |
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.[5] It went extinct by 1972.[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 nonfluent speakers remaining,[2] and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[6] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,[7] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,[8] 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.[4]