Yurats language

Not to be confused with Nenets languages, also called Yurak.

Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century, due to the expansion of the Nenets people.^[1] Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.^[2] While it is marginally closer to Enets rather than Nenets, it does not show a majority of either Enets or Nenets features.^[3] Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets.^[4] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.^[5] Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets, as is the traditional assumption.^[6]

Yurats
Yurak
Native to	Russia
Region	west of the Yenisey, Gyda Peninsula
Ethnicity	Yurats
Extinct	early 19th century[1]
Language family	Uralic Samoyedic (core) Enets–Nenets Yurats
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rts
Glottolog	yura1256  Yurats
Yurats is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2001)