ELP ID
30350
ELP Language
Northern Selkup
Speaker Number
100-999
Ethnic Population
2,166
Public Comment
"According to our estimation basing on the results of a series of sociolinguistic surveys lead in the Krasnoselkup and Pur districts of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area and in the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk territory in 1996-2003, at present in the Northern group there are no more than 600 Selkup speakers left which is a little bit less than one third of the group strength (1833, according to the data of the Census 1989, 2166, according to the data of the Census 2002), and there are some (though rather few) children among the Selkup speakers... The number of 1641 Selkup speakers given as a result of the Census 2002 appears most doubtful."
Source
The Selkup Language
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
<600
Speaker Number Range
100-999