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