Yugh language
Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Yugh | |
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Sym Ket, Yug | |
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) |

Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p [p] | t [t] | tʼ [tʲ] | k [k] | (q [q]) | ʔ [ʔ] |
voiced | b [b] | d [d] | dʼ [dʲ] | g [g] | |||
Fricative | voiceless | f [f] | s [s]/š [ʃ]/šʼ [ʃʲ] | χ [χ] | |||
voiced | (v [v]) | z [z]/ž [ʒ]/žʼ [ʒʲ] | j [j] | [ɣ] | (R [ʁ]) | ||
Affricate | (c [t͡s]) | čʼ [t͡ʃ] | |||||
Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | nʼ [nʲ] | ŋ [ŋ] | |||
Trill | [r] | ||||||
Lateral | l [l]/lʼ [lʲ] |
Notes
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