Editing Yugh language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Yugh
| altname          = Sym Ket, Yug
| nativename       = {{lang|yug|Дьук}} {{transliteration|yug|Ďuk}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|yug|ɟuk|}}
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = [[Yenisei River]]
| ethnicity        = 7 [[Yugh people|Yughs]] (2020)
| extinct          = 1972
| familycolor      = Dené-Yeniseian
| fam2             = [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian]]
| fam3             = Ketic
| linglist         = yug
| glotto           = yugh1239
| glottorefname    = Yugh
| glotto2          = yugh1240
| glottoname2      = additional bibliography
| glottorefname2   = Yugh (Retired)
| ref              = <ref name="Vajda2024">{{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>
| speakers2        = 2–3 nonfluent speakers (1991)<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kibrik |first=Aleksandr E. |date=March 1991|title=The Problem of Endangered Languages in the USSR |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0392192100322519/type/journal_article |journal=Diogenes |language=en |volume=39 |issue=153 |pages=67–83 |doi=10.1177/039219219103915305 |issn=0392-1921|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br>
3 (2020)<ref name=":1">[https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab7_VPN-2020.xlsx Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку]</ref>
| map              = File:Yeniseian_languages_map.svg
| mapcaption       = Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages.
| map2             = Lang Status 01-EX.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Yug is classified as Extinct by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]'' (2010)}}}}
| lc2              = yuu
| lc1              = yug
| ld1              = Yug
| ld2              = Yugh (deprecated)
}}
[[File:Table 1. Yeniseic numbers.png|thumb|325x325px|Numerals in Yeniseian languages]]
'''Yugh''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|j|u:|g}} {{respell|YOOG}}; '''Yug''') is a [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian]] language, closely related to [[Ket language|Ket]], formerly spoken by the [[Yugh people]], one of the southern groups along the [[Yenisei River]] in central [[Siberia]].<ref name=Vajda>{{cite web
|last=Vajda
|first=Edward J.
|url=http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm
|title=The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples
|access-date=2006-10-27
|archive-date=2019-04-06
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406214043/http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> It went extinct by 1972.<ref name="Vajda2024" /> 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,<ref name=":2">{{Ethnologue15|yug}}</ref> and the language was virtually [[extinct]]. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.<ref name="2002 Russian census data">[http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_03.xls 2002 Russian census data]</ref> In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,<ref name="2010 Russian census data">[http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/per-itog/tab5.xls 2010 Russian census data]</ref> while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,<ref>[https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения]</ref> 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.<ref name=":1" />