Yugh language
Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia
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Yugh (/ˈjuːɡ/ YOOG; 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.[6] It went extinct by 1972.[2] 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. By the early 1990s there were only two or three nonfluent speakers remaining,[3] and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[7] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,[8] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,[9] 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.[5]
| Yugh | |
|---|---|
| Sym Ket, Yug | |
| Дьуʼк Dʲuˀk[1] | |
| Pronunciation | Yug pronunciation: [dʲuʔk˥˧] |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Yenisei River |
| Ethnicity | 7 Yughs (2020) |
| Extinct | 1972[2] 2–3 nonfluent speakers (1991)[3][4] 3 (2020)[5] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yug |
yug | |
| Glottolog | yugh1239yugh1240 additional bibliography |
| ELP | Yug |
Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages. | |
 Yug is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo- | Palatalized | 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] | [ɣ] | (R [ʁ]) | ||
| Affricate | (c [t͡s]) | čʼ [t͡ʃ] | ||||||
| Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | nʼ [nʲ] | ŋ [ŋ] | ||||
| Trill | [r] | |||||||
| Lateral | l [l] | lʼ [lʲ] | ||||||
| Approximant | j [j] | |||||||
