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Selkup Man
Selkup may refer to: * Selkup people, a people living between the Ob and Yenisei rivers in Siberia, Russia * Selkup language Selkup is the group of languages of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name ''Se ..., their language {{Disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selkup People
The Selkup () are a Samoyedic-speaking Uralic ethnic group native to Siberia. They live in the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tyumen Oblast (with Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). Ethnonyms In Russian the Selkup call themselves Ostyak. This name is originally an exonym originating from the 17th century, when it was used to denote the Ob-Ugrian and Samoyed population of the Middle Ob region. By the end of the 20th century the name had been adopted by the Selkup as an indigenous name. In the scientific literature from 1850s until the 1930s, the Selkup were exclusively called Ostyak-Samoyeds (''остяко-самоеды, ostyako-samoyedy''). This ethnonym has never been widely used. The name ''Selkup'' was originally a self-designation of one group of Northern Selkups in the Taz River basin, but came to be applied to all the other local groups between the 1930s and 1980s. History Selkups speak the Selkup language, which belongs to the Samoyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selkup Language
Selkup is the group of languages of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name ''Selkup'' comes from the Russian , based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, ( ). Different dialects use different native names. Dialects Selkup is fractured in an extensive dialect continuum whose ends are no longer mutually intelligible. The three main varieties are the Taz (Northern) dialect (, ), which became the basis of the Selkup written language in the 1930s, Tym (Central) dialect (, ), and Ket dialect (, ). It is not related to the Ket language. Some have proposed to split Selkup into two different languages, termed Northern Selkup and Southern Selkup. According to the Endangered Languages Project The Endangered Languages Project (ELP) is a worldwide collaboration between indigenous Language planning, language o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
