Talk:Ket people

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Otto Maenchen-Helfen, Huns and Hsiung-nu, Byzantion 17 (1944—45) 222—243. On p. 224, Maenchen-Helfen observed that there lived in Xiongnu empire the ancestors of the present-day Ket or Yenissei-Ostiaks, and some of the Xiongnu words might have been borrowed from the Proto-Ket. See also L. Ligeti, Mots de civilisation de Haute Asie en transcription chinoise, AOH I (1950), 141—185.

[edit] Removing copyedit tag

This is the best that can be done, given the information presented. The article needs to be enlarged. There is more information in the External links (especially the second one).

I'm removing the copyedit tag. KarenAnn 17:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] language of Kets

The Ket language is a language isolate like Basque in Spain, completely unrelated to neighboring This is no one word about neighboring with Northern Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan languages.Attempts have been made by Russian scholars to establish a relationship with Burushaski or the Sino-Tibetan languages, and Yeniseian frequently forms part of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis or variants thereof. The genetic relations between Yeniseian languages and Na-Dene also were proposed by the american linguist Vajda, a specialist about Haida, although he does not agree with the further proposed relations with Caucasian languages.TYPIK ANTI-CAUCASIAN STUPID FASCIST PROPAGANDA! Where Starostin and Djakonoff? American linguist Vajda is 0! American linguist Vajda not agree because CAUCASIAN (EUROPEAN) ORIGIN OF N-CAUCASIANS. He is racist. According to Starostin-Djakonoff old pure macrocaucasians (sino-tibetan-yenisseyan-caucasian) were EUROPEAN (CAUCASIAN).

This section should likely be rewritten to note the new evidence that Kets is related to the Na-Dené language family.

Jhaasdijk (talk) 22:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Genetic origin of Kets

This paragraph was obviously done by someone, who is not an expert in modern population genetics. The Kets posess Y-haplogroup Q that was typical for Siberian Paleoindians ca. 20 000 years ago. Today, this Y-haplogroup is siginificantly present in Kets, Selkups, Yukaghirs, Nivkhi, Eskimos and American Indians. Y-haplogroup Q comes from a lineage P, to which also lineage R (R1a, R1b, R2) belongs. The highest percentage of R-men can now be found in Europe, especially in Spain and among Celtic groups in the British Isles, where subclade R1b1c makes up 90-100% of all male lineages. Hence the statement in the paragraph is misleading. It is based on (from today's perspective) archaic genetic studies that were not able to distinguish between R and Q. 82.100.61.114 16:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I removed the misleading passage about the genetics of Kets. 82.100.61.114 22:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)