Yugh language

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Numerals in Yeniseian languages

Yugh (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; 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.<ref name=Vajda>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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">Template:Ethnologue15</ref> and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.<ref name="2002 Russian census data">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">2010 Russian census data</ref> while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,<ref>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" />

Phonology

Vowels

Vowels of Yugh<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i Template:IPAblink	ɨ Template:IPAblink	u Template:IPAblink
Close-mid	e Template:IPAblink	ə Template:IPAblink	o Template:IPAblink
Open-mid	ɛ Template:IPAblink	ʌ Template:IPAblink	ɔ Template:IPAblink
Open		a Template:IPAblink

Consonants

Consonants of Yugh<ref name=":0" />

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal
Plosive	Template:Small	p Template:IPAblink	t Template:IPAblink	tʼ Template:IPAblink	k Template:IPAblink	(q Template:IPAblink)	ʔ Template:IPAblink
	Template:Small	b Template:IPAblink	d Template:IPAblink	dʼ Template:IPAblink	g Template:IPAblink
Fricative	Template:Small	f Template:IPAblink	s Template:IPAblink/š Template:IPAblink/šʼ Template:IPAblink			χ Template:IPAblink
	Template:Small	(v Template:IPAblink)	z Template:IPAblink/ž Template:IPAblink/žʼ Template:IPAblink	j Template:IPAblink	Template:IPAblink	(R Template:IPAblink)
Affricate			(c Template:IPAblink)	čʼ Template:IPAblink
Nasal		m Template:IPAblink	n Template:IPAblink	nʼ Template:IPAblink	ŋ Template:IPAblink
Trill			Template:IPAblink
Lateral			l Template:IPAblink/lʼ Template:IPAblink

References

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External links

• Yugh basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Yugh at the Vanishing Peoples / Languages database