Southern Selkup language
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| Southern Selkup | |
|---|---|
| Tomsk region Selkup, South-Central Selkup | |
| сӱccӱ ӄумыт әты, шӧш ӄумыт әты, тӱй ӄумыт әты tüj qumyt əty, šöš qumyt əty, śüssü qumyt əty, tüjqum, šöšqum, śüssogum | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Tomsk Oblast |
| Ethnicity | southern Selkups |
Native speakers | 7 (2019–2024)[1] 1 (2015)[2] |
| Revival | numbers increasing |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
1or | |
| Glottolog | sout3262 |
| ELP | Southern Selkup |
 Distribution of Selkup dialects | |
 Southern Selkup is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Southern Selkup is a group of dialects spoken in Tomsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia.[3][4] There are four main groups, Chumelkup, Sheshkup, Syusyukum and Upper Ob. It is moribund today, with only about 7 speakers, but it is being revived.
It is considered to be a dialect of a greater Selkup language by most Russian sources, but an individual language by others. The Endangered Languages Project states that the differences between the Selkup dialects are "comparable to those between, for example, Ket, Yug, and Pumpokol".[5]
Dialects
- Southern Selkup
- Chumelkup (чу́мэлӄу́п)
- Tym
- Vasyugan
- Narym
- Laskino
- Tyukhterevo (actually Narym)
- Parabel (Chuzik possibly distinct)
- lower Ob
- Kyonga
- Sheshkup (шё̄шӄуп)
- Igotkino (Togur)
- Ivankino
- Inkino
- Syusyukum (сӱ̄ссыӷӯм)
- Ket
- Upper Ket
- Middle Ket
- Lower Ket
- Chaya
- Sondrovo
- Ket
- Upper Ob (тюйкум, пайкум)
- Upper Ob (Molchanovo)
- Chulym
- Tom (пайкум)
- Chumelkup (чу́мэлӄу́п)
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| Close | ⟨и⟩ i ⟨ӣ⟩ iː | ⟨ӱ⟩ y ⟨ӱ̄⟩ yː | ⟨ы⟩ ɨ ⟨ы̄⟩ ɨː | ⟨у⟩ u ⟨ӯ⟩ uː |
| Mid | ⟨э⟩ e ⟨э̄⟩ eː | ⟨ӧ⟩ œ ⟨ӧ̄⟩ œː | ⟨(э/ы)⟩ ə | ⟨о⟩ o ⟨о̄⟩ oː |
| Open | ⟨э/ӓ/(ӭ)⟩ ɛ | ⟨а⟩ a ⟨а̄⟩ aː | ||
| ⟨ӓ⟩ æ ⟨ӓ̄⟩ æː | ||||
Consonants
Consonants in italics are not present in all dialects.[clarification needed]
| Labial | Dental | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʲ | t | tʲ | k | kʲ | q | qʲ | |||
| voiced | b | bʲ | d | dʲ | g | gʲ | ɢ | ɢʲ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | s | sʲ | ʃ | h | hʲ | ɣ | ɣʲ | ||
| voiced | v | vʲ | z | zʲ | ʒ | |||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃʲ | |||||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | d͡ʒʲ | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n | nʲ | ŋ | |||||||
| Liquid | r | rʲ | l | lʲ | ||||||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||||||||
Orthography
Pre-literate
Before the introduction of writing, Selkups would carve signs to signify numbers, as well as tamgas.[8]
Selkup texts were first published in the late 17th century with the publication of The Lord's Prayer in the southern Ob dialects by Nicolaes Witsen. Wordlists of Selkup were published in the 18th century, by Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Gerhard Friedrich Müller and Fyodor Zheltukhin. One of the Ob dialects was desctibed in a grammar by the Samoyedist Matthias Castrén in the mid-19th century. Latin and Cyrillic transcriptions were used for these works.[9]
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