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    Selkup is the group of languages of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994...
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    Northern Selkup is a variety of Selkup spoken in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia, by about 600 people. Despite institutional...
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    The Selkup (Russian: селькупы, romanized: sel'kupy) are a Samoyedic-speaking Uralic ethnic group native to Siberia. They live in the northern parts of...
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    Tundra Nenets Forest Nenets Kamas-Selkup Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed) Northern Selkup (Taz) Central Selkup (Tym) Southern Selkup (Ket) Kamassian (Sayan-Samoyed)...
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    languages, the languages do not exhibit Germanic umlaut, a different type of vowel assimilation.) Large vowel inventories. For example, some Selkup varieties...
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    Ostyak (category Selkup people)
    Indigenous peoples and languages in Siberia, Russia. Both the Khanty people and the Ket people were formerly called Ostyaks, whereas the Selkup people were referred...
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    there are also loanwords from other languages such as Selkup, for example: the word qopta 'ox' comes from the Selkup word qobda. Ket also has some Mongolian...
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    Evenki, Gilyak, Itelmen, Ket, Koryak, Mansi, Nanai, Nenets, Kildin Sámi, Selkup, Siberian Yupik and Udihe. Alphabet of 1932: The descending tail or hook...
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    Nenets Tundra Nenets Forest Nenets Kamas-Selkup Selkup Taz (Northern Selkup) Tym (Central Selkup) Ket (Southern Selkup) Kamas † Finno-Permic Permic Udmurt...
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    Enets (Madu Ona’ Bazaan) Selkup-Kamas Selkup (Ostyak-Samoyed) (Šöl’ Qumyt Əty) Northern Selkup Central Selkup Southern Selkup (not to be confused with...
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  • 746) Dolgan (1,054) Selkup (1,023) Yupik languages Naukan (Naukanski) Sirenik Central Siberian Yupik (Yuit) Yukaghir languages Northern Yukaghir Southern...
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    between Khanty and Selkup, but also Forest Nenets. The relationship to Hungarian is looser: in their current state, the Ob-Ugric languages are radically different...
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  • Autonomous Okrug (aboriginal language; with Khanty and Mansi) Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (aboriginal language; with Khanty and Selkup) Nepali: India (with...
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    yazyki), are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language, both spoken in Mordovia. Previously...
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    derives from the related Samoyedic Koibal language). Mator has been frequently grouped together with Selkup and Kamassian as "South Samoyedic". This is...
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    land. Samoyedic peoples include: Northern Samoyedic peoples Nenets Enets Nganasan Southern Samoyedic peoples Selkup Kamasins or Kamas Mator or Motor (now...
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    the Uralic Selkup, as well as a large number of Turkic languages). They are, however, firmly entrenched in the non-Uralo-Siberian languages of northernmost...
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    the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Selkup in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Veps in Karelia The Yukaghir languages in Sakha As a result of mass migration...
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  • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
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    linguistics. In addition to the Yeniseian languages it also includes the Uralic languages of Khanty and Selkup. The term "Yenisei-Ostyak" typically refers...
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    relatives are Nganasan and Enets, after them Selkup, and even more distantly the other Uralic languages. In stressed syllables, the vowel phonemes of...
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  • Spoken in: Taiwan Sekani – Tse’khene Spoken in: British Columbia , Canada Selkup – чу́мэл шэ, тюйкуй келл, шё̄шӄуй шэ̄, сӱ̄ссыӷӯй сэ̄, шöйӄумый эты Spoken...
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  • Consonant gradation (category Articles containing Northern Sami-language text)
    well-preserved. A limited form of consonant gradation is found in the Ket dialect of Selkup. In certain environments, geminate stops can alternate with short (allophonically...
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    divided into two major areal groups: Northern Samoyedic (Nenets, Yurats, Enets, Nganasans), and Southern Samoyedic (Selkups) with a further subgroup of Sayan-Samoyedic...
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  • Xiongnu (redirect from Northern Xiongnu)
    a strong genetic affinity with Samoyedic-speaking neighbours, such as Selkups (Jeong et al., 2018, 2019)." Bunker 2002, p. 29. "Metropolitan Museum of...
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    Siberia. It belongs to the wider Uralic language family. There were thought to be around 7,500 speakers of Northern Khanty and 2,000 speakers of Eastern...
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  • with macron is used in the Even, Evenki, Northern Mansi, Nanai, Negidal, Kildin Sami, Selkup and Ulch languages, where it usually represents [joː] or a...
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    1937 (Forest Nenets; Tundra Nenets); Nganasan; Kamassian; Koibal; Mator; Selkup (since the 1950s; not used recently) Mari, since the 19th century (Hill;...
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  • crane-neck"). A similar swan-shaped and two-stringed harp is played by the Narym Selkup people of Siberia, which may have been based on the Ostyak Harp. Folk harp...
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    closely related to the Nganasan and Enets language, and more distantly to Selkup. Tundra Nenets and its sister language, Forest Nenets, are sometimes considered...
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