Yugh language

Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yugh language

Yugh (/ˈjɡ/ 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]

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Yugh
Sym Ket, Yug
Дьук Ďuk
Pronunciation[ɟuk]
Native toRussia
RegionYenisei River
Ethnicity7 Yughs (2020)
Extinct1972[1]
2-3 nonfluent speakers (1991)[2][3]
3 (2020)[4]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
yug  Yug
yuu  Yugh (deprecated)
yug
Glottologyugh1239
yugh1240  additional bibliography
ELPYug
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Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages.
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Yug is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Numerals in Yeniseian languages

Phonology

Vowels

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Vowels of Yugh[9]
Front Central Back
Close i [i] ɨ [ɨ] u [u]
Close-mid e [e] ə [ə] o [o]
Open-mid ɛ [ɛ] ʌ [ʌ] ɔ [ɔ]
Open a [a]
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Consonants

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Consonants of Yugh[9]
Labial Dental Palatal Velar Uvular Laryngeal/
Pharyngeal
Plosive voiceless p [p] t [t] tʼ [] k [k] (q [q]) ʔ [ʔ]
voiced b [b] d [d] dʼ [] g [g]
Fricative voiceless f [f] s [s][ʃ]ʼ [ʃʲ] χ [χ]
voiced (v [v]) z [z][ʒ]ʼ [ʒʲ] j [j] [ɣ] (R [ʁ])
Affricate (c [t͡s]) čʼ [t͡ʃ]
Nasal m [m] n [n] nʼ [] ŋ [ŋ]    
Trill [r]
Lateral l [l]/lʼ []
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