Editing Ket language (section)

{{Short description|Yeniseian language spoken in Siberia}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Ket
| nativename       = {{lang|ket|остыганна ӄаʼ}} {{transliteration|ket|ostɯɣanna qaʼ}}
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]]
| ethnicity        = 1,088 [[Ket people|Ket]] (2021)
| speakers         = 60
| date             = 2019–2024
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Кетский язык {{!}} Малые языки России |url=https://minlang.site/lang/ketskiy |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=minlang.site}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Dené-Yeniseian
| fam2             = [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian]]
| fam3             = Ketic
| script           = [[Cyrillic]]
| map2             = Lang Status 40-SE.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Ket is classified as Severely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| iso3             = ket
| glotto           = kett1243
| lingua           = 43-AAA-a
| glottorefname    = Ket
| notice           = IPA
| dia1             = Northern
| dia2             = Central
| dia3             = Southern
| altname          = Yenisei Ostyak
| map              = File:Yeniseian_languages_map.svg
| mapcaption       = Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages.
| speakers2        = 153 (2020 census)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Росстат — Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=rosstat.gov.ru |archive-date=24 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124160257/http://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|[ostɨ̀kanna qaˀ]}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nefedov |first=Andrey |title=Clause linkage in Ket |date=2015 |publisher=LOT |others=Universiteit Leiden |isbn=978-94-6093-190-1 |series=LOT dissertation series |location=Utrecht|url=https://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/408_fulltext.pdf}}</ref>
| minority         = [[Russia]]
* [[Krasnoyarsky Krai]]
** [[Evenkiysky District]]
** [[Turukhansky District]]
}}
The '''Ket''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɛ|t}} {{respell|KET}}<ref name=Bauer/>) language, or more specifically '''Imbak''' and formerly known as '''Yenisei Ostyak''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɒ|s|t|i|æ|k}} {{respell|OSS|tee|ak}}<ref name="Bauer">{{Cite book |last=Bauer |first=Laurie |title=The Linguistic Student's Handbook |date=2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh}}</ref>), is a [[Siberia]]n language long thought to be an [[language isolate|isolate]], the sole surviving language of a [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian language family]]. It is spoken along the middle [[Yenisei River|Yenisei]] basin by the [[Ket people]].

The language is threatened with extinction—the number of ethnic Kets that are native speakers of the language dropped from 1,225 in 1926 to 537 in 1989. According to the UNESCO census, this number has since fallen to 150. A 2005 census reported 485 native speakers, but this number is suspected to be inflated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php|title=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger|website=www.unesco.org|access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref> According to a local news source, the number of remaining Ket speakers is around 10 to 20.<ref>{{Cite web|date=10 September 2019|title=Последний бард последнего народа|url=https://trv-science.ru/2019/09/poslednij-bard-poslednego-naroda/|access-date=22 April 2021|website=Троицкий вариант — Наука|language=ru-RU}}</ref> Another Yeniseian language, [[Yugh language|Yugh]], has recently become extinct.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yug|title=Yug|work=Ethnologue|access-date=26 May 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Vajda2024&quot;">{{Citation |last=Vajda |first=Edward |title=8 The Yeniseian language family |date=2024-02-19 |work=The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia |pages=365–480 |editor-last=Vajda |editor-first=Edward |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110556216-008/html |access-date=2024-06-26 |publisher=De Gruyter |doi=10.1515/9783110556216-008 |isbn=978-3-11-055621-6|url-access=subscription }}</ref>