Yurats language explained

Yurats
States:Russia
Region:west of the Yenisey, Gyda Peninsula
Extinct:early 19th century
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:Uralic
Fam2:Samoyedic
Fam3:(core)
Fam4:Enets–Nenets
Iso3:rts
Glotto:yura1256
Glottoname:Yurats
Also Known As:Yurak
Ethnicity:Yurats
Map2:Lang Status 01-EX.svg

Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.[2] Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets.[3] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.[4] Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages . 2007 . Routledge . 978-0-415-56331-4 . Moseley . Christopher . London . Europe and North Asia . ocm47983733.
  2. Book: Janhunen , Juha . Juha Janhunen

    . Juha Janhunen. Samojedischer Wortschatz. 1977. 8. Castreanumin toimitteita. 17. Helsinki. 951-45-1161-1. 0355-0141.

  3. Web site: 2019-02-11 . Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190211093750/http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html#Yurats . February 11, 2019 . 2024-06-23 . University of Helsinki.
  4. Book: Siegl, Florian . Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern Siberia . 2013 . Société Finno-Ougrienne . 978-952-5667-46-2 . Helsinki . 35 . Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura.
  5. Web site: Glottolog 5.0 - Yurats . 2024-06-20 . glottolog.org.