Endangered Languages Project - Yug

Yug

^{[aka Yugh, Southern Ket, Sym Ket]}

Classification: Yeniseian

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Yugh, Southern Ket, Sym Ket, D'uk, югский язык
CLASSIFICATION		Yeniseian, Northern Yeniseian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		yuu
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Critically endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<5
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
<50
CHILDREN
0
YOUNG ADULTS
0
OLDER ADULTS
0?
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
mean age of youngest speakers: unknown, but hardly less than 60 years

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: in the basins of the rivers Sym, Kas, and Dubches, western tributaries to the middle Yenisei opposite to the Podkamennaya Tunguska

PLACES: Siberia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Originally spoken in the basins of the rivers Sym, Kas and Dubches, western tributaries to the middle Yenisey opposite to the Podkamennaya Tunguska, later in the villages of Vorogovo in Turukhansk County and Yartsevo in Yeniseysk County in Krasnoyarsk Region in the Russian Federation."

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2-3
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
19
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (1991 G. Verner in Kibrik). Ethnic population data: 2002 Census

PLACES: Russia;

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press