Also Known As:
Narym, Tym Selkup, čumyľ qumyt әty, чумыль ӄумыт әты, центральный селькупский язык, Middle Selkup, Ostyak Samoyed, narymin selkupin kieli, narymin selkuppi
Dialects & Varieties
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
No results found.
Children:
No results found.
Young adults
0
Older adults
0?
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
~2,000
Year information was gathered
No results found.
Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
in the basin of the upper Ob and on its tributaries, from the Chaya in the south to the Tym in the north; with each river basin having a dialect of its own
Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
There have been attempts to support the language by a written standard (in Cyrillic script).
Recent Resources
A text in Shoeshkup dialect (Central/Southern) recorded in 1980 in Ivankino village of Tomsk region