Yurats is classified as Extinct by theUNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2001)
Yurats (Yurak) was aSamoyedic language spoken in theSiberian tundra west of theYenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century, due to the expansion of theNenets people.[1] Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting theNenets andEnets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.[2] While it is marginally closer to Enets rather than Nenets, it does not show a majority of either Enets or Nenets features.[3] Some eastern dialects ofTundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets.[4] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.[5] Nevertheless,Glottolog considers it to be a dialect ofTundra Nenets, as is the traditional assumption.[6]
^Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.).The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103.ISBN978-1-138-65084-8.
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