Northern Selkup
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
Northern Selkup

Language Information by Source

The Selkup Language

O.A. Kazakevich. 2005. The Selkup Language. In "Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia" (http://lingsib.iea.ras.ru/en/languages/selkup.shtml), Russian Academy of Sciences.

Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<600
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 4

Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.

4
Transmission

Transmission 2

Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.

2

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
2,166
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"In the Tomsk region, the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area and the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk territory Selkup has a status of a protected language... All Selkups speaking Selkup are bilingual with Russian as their second or sometimes their first language. There are no Selkup speaking monolinguals any more."

Location and Context

Countries
Russia;
Location Description

"In the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area the Northern Selkup reside at the middle and upper flow of the river Taz and its tributaries. In the villages Ratta, Kikkiakki, and the-Upper-Tolka they build the bulk of the population. About 50 Selkup live in Salekhard, the administrative centre of the autonomous area.

In the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk area the Selkup mostly live in the middle flow of the Yenisei, mostly at its link tributary the river Turukhan (with its tributaries the Upper and the Lower Baikha). In the village Farkovo they constitute the majority of the population. In some villages at the Yenisei they live among the Ket. Some Selkups also live in the village Kellog at the Yelogui, a link tributary of the Yenisei."

Government Support
Protected language
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:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
Older orthographies
Comments on writing systems:
"It should be mentioned that the main sphere of the functioning of the Selkup writing system is education. Outside school and university the Selkup writing (both in the Northern dialect and in the dialects of the Southern Selkups) is very little used."

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