Yugh language

Yugh
D'uk
Pronunciation	[ɟuk]
Spoken in	Russia
Region	Yenisei River
Ethnicity	Yugh people
Extinct	20th century
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian Yeniseian Northern Yeniseian Yugh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`yuu`

Yugh (Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia.^[1] In the past it was regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate. By the early 1990s there were reported to be only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language is now virtually extinct.^[2]

Notes

^ Vajda, Edward J.. "The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples". http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-27.
^ "Yugh". Ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yuu. Retrieved 2006-10-27.

References

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition SIL International, Dallas, Tex.: 2005 ISBN 1-55671-159-X.
Vajda, Edward J., Yeniseian Peoples and Languages : A History of Yeniseian Studies with an Annotated Bibliography and a Source Guide, Curzon Press: 2002 ISBN 0-7007-1290-9.