Also Known As:
Taz Selkup, šöľqumyt әty, северноселькупский язык, śöľqup, шӧльӄумыт әты, тазовский селькупский язык, pohjoisselkuppi, Sel'kup, Sölkup, Sölqup, Söl'qup, Ostyak Samoyed, Tas Selkup
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
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
1
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
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~1,200
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
Degree of speakers' competence: under interference from Russian.
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
In the basin of the river Taz (flowing to the Arctic Ocean), as well as in the Baikha-Turukhan river system, to the west of the upper Yenisei, partly within the tundra zone; administratively mainly within the Krasnosel'kup raion of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of Tyumen' Oblast, Russia.
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:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
A written standard (in Cyrillic script) has recently been (re)introduced and is being used, with modest success, in elementary-level school instruction
Recent Resources
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