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ALSO KNOWN AS		Narym, Tym Selkup, čumyľ qumyt әty, чумыль ӄумыт әты, центральный селькупский язык, Middle Selkup, Ostyak Samoyed, narymin selkupin kieli, narymin selkuppi,
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Samoyedic
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		1op
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		The three main varieties of Selkup have traditionally been counted as dialects of a single language; their differences are, however, comparable to those between, for instance, Ket, Yug, and Pumpokol.

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Information from: “Personal communication, April 5, 2015” . Andrey Filchenko (2015)

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide
OLDER ADULTS
2
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The number of speakers of Central Selkup is reliably below 10, more precisely 2 persons (possibly but unlikely 3), both fully bilingual (Russian-Selkup), both aged over 60."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~2,000
CHILDREN
0
YOUNG ADULTS
0
OLDER ADULTS
0?

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Currently there is a wave of national awakening embracing even the linguistically assimilated part of the population; it seems, however, that this movement is mainly concerned about social and ecological problems, rather than about a true revigoration of the native language.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers

Scripts (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

More on Orthography

There have been attempts to support the language by a written standard (in Cyrillic script).

PLACES: 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

		2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia			UNESCO	http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html		0?	~2,000	0	<500	1993	100-999		Russian	degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers		Critically Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	15	Currently there is a wave of national awakening embracing even the linguistically assimilated part of the population; it seems, however, that this movement is mainly concerned about social and ecological problems, rather than about a true revigoration of the native language.	15	Russia	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
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger	UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub																	59.8903,82.0129
April		2015	Personal communication, April 5, 2015					Andrey Filchenko			2			2		1-9	"The number of speakers of Central Selkup is reliably below 10, more precisely 2 persons (possibly but unlikely 3), both fully bilingual (Russian-Selkup), both aged over 60."	Russian		All	Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Central Selkup

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Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<500

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Central Selkup

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Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<500

Discussion

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