| Yugh | |
|---|---|
| Sym Ket, Yug | |
| ДьукĎuk | |
| Pronunciation | [ɟuk] |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Yenisei River |
| Ethnicity | 7Yughs (2020) |
| Extinct | 1972[1] 2-3 nonfluent speakers (1991)[2][3] 3 (2020)[4] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:yug – Yugyuu – Yugh (deprecated) |
yug | |
| Glottolog | yugh1239yugh1240 additional bibliography |
| ELP | Yug |
 Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages. | |
 Yug is classified as Extinct by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Yugh (/ˈjuːɡ/YOOG;Yug) is aYeniseian language, closely related toKet, formerly spoken by theYugh people, one of the southern groups along theYenisei River in centralSiberia.[5] It went extinct by 1972.[1] It was once regarded as a dialect of theKet language, which was considered to be alanguage isolate, and was therefore calledSym Ket orSouthern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three nonfluent speakers remaining,[2] and the language was virtuallyextinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[6] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,[7] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,[8] 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.[4]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i[i] | ɨ[ɨ] | u[u] |
| Close-mid | e[e] | ə[ə] | o[o] |
| Open-mid | ɛ[ɛ] | ʌ[ʌ] | ɔ[ɔ] |
| Open | a[a] |
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p[p] | t[t] | tʼ[tʲ] | k[k] | (q[q]) | ʔ[ʔ] |
| voiced | b[b] | d[d] | dʼ[dʲ] | g[g] | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f[f] | s[s]/š[ʃ]/šʼ[ʃʲ] | χ[χ] | |||
| voiced | (v[v]) | z[z]/ž[ʒ]/žʼ[ʒʲ] | j[j] | [ɣ] | (R[ʁ]) | ||
| Affricate | (c[t͡s]) | čʼ[t͡ʃ] | |||||
| Nasal | m[m] | n[n] | nʼ[nʲ] | ŋ[ŋ] | |||
| Trill | [r] | ||||||
| Lateral | l[l]/lʼ[lʲ] | ||||||
| Chukotko-Kamchatkan |
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| Yeniseian |
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| Yukaghir | ||||||
| Nivkh | ||||||
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