Also Known As:
Yugh, Southern Ket, Sym Ket, D'uk, югский язык
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
<5
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:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
0
Older adults
0?
Elders
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Ethnic or community population
<50
Year information was gathered
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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 basins of the rivers Sym, Kas, and Dubches, western tributaries to the middle Yenisei opposite to the Podkamennaya Tunguska
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
A recent history
A website with information and details of the Yugh people.
Ket Women and children taken in 1913