Omok | |
States: | Russia |
Region: | Yakutia and Magadan Oblast |
Era: | last attested 1821 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Palaeosiberian |
Fam1: | Yukaghir |
Fam2: | Eastern Yukaghir? |
Iso3: | omk |
Glotto: | yuka1240 |
Glottorefname: | Malyj Anjuj Omok |
Linglist: | omk |
Map: | Yukaghir map.svg |
Mapcaption: | Pre-contact distribution of Omok (yellow) and other Yukaghir languages |
Omok is an extinct Yukaghir language of Siberia, part of a dialect continuum with two surviving languages. It was last spoken perhaps as late as the 18th century. A wordlist of Omok, as well as its sister language Chuvan, was recorded in 1821 by Fyodor Matyushkin.[2]