Southern Selkup
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Also Known As:
Ket Selkup, южноселькупский язык, tüj qumyt әty, šöš qumyt әty, śüssü qumyt әty, tüjqum, šöšqum, śüssogum, сӱccӱ ӄумыт әты, шӧш ӄумыт әты, тӱй ӄумыт әты, eteläselkuppi, кетский селькупский язык, Ket' Selkup, Ostyak Samoyed
Dialects & Varieties
  • Upper Ob Selkup
  • Ket Selkup
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The Selkup Language

O.A. Kazakevich. 2005. The Selkup Language. In "Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia" (http://lingsib.iea.ras.ru/en/languages/selkup.shtml), Russian Academy of Sciences.

Critically Endangered
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
15-20
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 4

Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.

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Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 4

Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.

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Transmission

Transmission 5

There are only a few elderly speakers.

5
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Older adults
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"In the Tomsk region, the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area and the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk territory Selkup has a status of a protected language... Traditional spheres of the functioning of Selkup are family, traditional activities (hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding for transport needs), and oral lore... All Selkups speaking Selkup are bilingual with Russian as their second or sometimes their first language. There are no Selkup speaking monolinguals any more."

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description

"The Selkup are dispersed on a large area of Western Siberia between the Middle Ob and the Yenisei in the territory of the Tomsk region, the Krasnoselkup and the Pur districts of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area, and the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk territory... In the Tomsk region the Selkup reside in the middle flow of the Ob and its tributaries the Ket’, the Tym, the Parabel’, and the Vasyugan... Rather a large group of the Selkup live in Napas. About 30 % of the Southern Selkup live in the towns Kolpashevo, Kedroviy, and in the regional centre Tomsk."

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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
Older orthographies
Comments on writing systems:
Orthographies developed beginning in the 19th century, with new orthographies being proposed through the 1980s. "It should be mentioned that the main sphere of the functioning of the Selkup writing system is education. Outside school and university the Selkup writing (both in the Northern dialect and in the dialects of the Southern Selkups) is very little used."

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