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Yugh
Sym Ket
D'uk
Pronunciation	[ɟuk]
Native to	Russia
Region	Yenisei River
Ethnicity	Yugh people
Native speakers	~1 (if not extinct) (2010 census)
Language family	Dené–Yeniseian? Yeniseian Northern Yeniseian Yugh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yug
Glottolog	yugh1239 yugh1240  additional bibliography

The Yugh (Yug) language is a Yeniseian language of the Ket languages. It was formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia. It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. In the literature, Yugh is referred to as the Sym dialect of Ket, due to the fact that the Yugh speakers lived on the banks of the river Sym, the left tributary of the river Yenisei. By the 1980's, the last fluent-remaining speakers had died in Vorogovo and Jarcevo. In the early 1990s, there were only two or three non-fluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 Census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia and in the 2010 census only one ethnic Yugh was counted. It is currently believed to be extinct.

Recent History (Новейшая история)

Yughs have previously been considered part of the Northern group of Ket people. However, in the 1960's, Yuga was different from Kat, they have separate and unique, although related, Yugsk language and customs. By the end of 1980's, the Yugh people, along with their language, had disappeared as a separate ethnic group. By the early 1990s, the Yugh language was thought to be extinct, as only two or three non-fluent languages in Yugsk were still spoken. Yugh people, along with their relatives and other extinct related tongues, were named "Yeniseians" by linguists and ethnographers. In 1991, the population consisted of 10 to 15 people that resided in the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk territory in the village, Vorogovo. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in Russia. During the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was recorded.

References

• 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.
• Vajda, Edward J. (2012). Dictionary of the Yugh Language. München: LINCOM.
• Georg, Stefan (2007-03-22). A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak). Global Oriental. ISBN 978-90-04-21350-0.
• Sijmen, Janse, Mark, 1959- Tol, (2003). Language death and language maintenance : theoretical, practical, and descriptive approaches. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 1-58811-382-5. OCLC 473088519.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Vajda, Edward J. (2004-12-01). "HEINRICH WERNER, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen". WORD. 55 (3): 499–502. doi:10.1080/00437956.2004.12098228. ISSN 0043-7956.
• Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods. International Society of Communication and Development Between Universities (ISCDBU).
• Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019-04-09). Language Contact in Siberia. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-39076-8.
• Holman, Eric W.; Brown, Cecil H.; Wichmann, Søren; Müller, André; Velupillai, Viveka; Hammarström, Harald; Sauppe, Sebastian; Jung, Hagen; Bakker, Dik; Brown, Pamela; Belyaev, Oleg (2011-12). "Automated Dating of the World's Language Families Based on Lexical Similarity". Current Anthropology. 52 (6): 841–875. doi:10.1086/662127. ISSN 0011-3204. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Donner, Kai (1933). Ethnological Notes about the Yenissey-Ostjak (in the Turukhansk Region). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura.

External links

• Yugh basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database