- Yugh language
language
name=Yugh
nativename=D'uk
pronunciation = ɟuk
familycolor=Dené-Yeniseian
states=Russia
region=Yenisei River
fam2=Yeniseian
fam3=Northern Yeniseian
extinct=20th Century
iso3=yuuYugh (Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the
Yugh people , one of the southern groups along theYenisei River in centralSiberia . [cite web
last=Vajda
first= Edward J.
url=http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm
title=The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples
publisher=
accessdate=2006-10-27 ] In the past it was regarded as a dialect of theKet language , which was considered to be alanguage isolate . By the early 1990s there were reported to be only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language is now virtuallyextinct . [cite web
url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yuu
title=Yugh
publisher=Ethnologue.com
accessdate=2006-10-27 ]Notes
References
*Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) "Ethnologue: Languages of the World", Fifteenth edition SIL International, Dallas, Tex.: 2005 ISBN 1-55671-159-X.
*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
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yuu Ethnologue: Yugh]
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