Yurats language
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Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century, due to the expansion of the Nenets people.<ref name=":0" /> Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> While it is marginally closer to Enets rather than Nenets, it does not show a majority of either Enets or Nenets features.<ref name="salminen">Template:Cite book</ref> Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets, as is the traditional assumption.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>