Pronunciation [ɟuk] Region Yenisei River Extinct late 20th century | Ethnicity Yugh people | |
Language family Dené–Yeniseian?YeniseianNorthern YeniseianYugh |
Yugh (Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia. It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. In the 2010 census only one ethnic Yugh was counted.
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Yugh language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA