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Ket
Остыганна ӄаʼ
Native to
Russia
Region
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Ethnicity
c. 1,100 Ket people
Native speakers
153 (2020)[1]
Language family
Dené–Yeniseian?
Yeniseian
Northern Yeniseian
Ket
Dialects
Northern
Central
Southern
Writing system
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ket
Glottolog
kett1243
ELP
Ket
Linguasphere
43-AAA-a
Ket is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Ket (/ˈkɛt/KET[2]) language, or more specifically Imbak and formerly known as Yenisei Ostyak (/ˈɒstiæk/OSS-tee-ak[2]), is a Siberian language long thought to be an isolate, the sole surviving language of a Yeniseian language family. It is spoken along the middle Yenisei basin by the Ket people.
The language is threatened with extinction—the number of ethnic Kets that are native speakers of the language dropped from 1,225 in 1926 to 537 in 1989. According to the UNESCO census, this number has since fallen to 150. A 2005 census reported 485 native speakers, but this number is suspected to be inflated.[3] According to a local news source, the number of remaining Ket speakers is around 10 to 20.[4] Another Yeniseian language, Yugh, is believed to have recently become extinct.[5]
^"Росстат — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020". rosstat.gov.ru. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
^ abBauer, Laurie (2007). The Linguistic Student's Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
^"UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
^"Последний бард последнего народа". Троицкий вариант — Наука (in Russian). 10 September 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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northward migration, with the modern-day Kets representing the very northernmost expansion of the language family. This migration possibly occurred as...
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