Yugh people (pronounced ; often written Yug) are a critically endangered

Yeniseian people The Yeniseian people are a Siberian population that speaks Yeniseian languages. Despite evidence pointing to the historical presence of Yeniseian populations throughout Central Siberia and Northern Mongolia, only the Ket people survive today. The ...

, an

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group who originally lived throughout central

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. The Yugh people live along the

Yenisei River The Yenisey (russian: Енисе́й, ''Yeniséy''; mn, Горлог мөрөн, ''Gorlog mörön''; Buryat: Горлог мүрэн, ''Gorlog müren''; Tuvan: Улуг-Хем, ''Uluğ-Hem''; Khakas: Ким суғ, ''Kim suğ''; Ket: Ӄук ...

from

Yeniseisk Yeniseysk ( rus, Енисейск, p=jɪnʲɪˈsʲejsk) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. Population: 20,000 (1970). History Yeniseysk was founded in 1619 as a stocka ...

to the mouth of the Dupches River.

Recent history

Previously the Yughs were considered part of the northern group of

Ket people Kets (russian: Кеты; Ket: Ostygan) are a tribe of Yeniseian speaking people in Siberia. During the Russian Empire, they were known as Ostyaks, without differentiating them from several other Siberian people. Later, they became known as ''Ye ...

, but in the 1960s the Yugh were distinguished from the Ket, having their own distinct, although related,

Yugh language Yugh (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. It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language The Ket language, ...

and customs. By the late 1980s the Yugh people, along with their language, had disappeared as a separate ethnic group. By the early 1990s the Yugh language was considered extinct, as only two or three non-fluent Yugh language speakers remained. The Yugh people, along with their relatives the

Ket Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a state network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is operated by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, an agency of the Kentucky state governm ...

and other extinct branches are referred to as ''Yeniseians'' by linguists and ethnographers. In 1991, the ethnic population consisted of 10 to 15 individuals in the

Turukhansky District Turukhansky District (russian: Туруха́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2925 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai and border ...

of the

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...

at the

Vorogovo Vorogovo (russian: Ворогово) is a rural locality (selo) in Turukhansky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai. It had a population of 856 in 2010, a decrease from its 2002 population of 1104. Climate Vorogovo has a subarctic climate The subarctic c ...

settlement. The 2002 Census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.2002 Russian census data
/ref> In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted.2010 Russian census data
/ref> Yenisean languages

Notes

References

*Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'', Fifteenth edition SIL International, Dallas, Tex.: 2005 . *Vajda, Edward J., Yeniseian Peoples and Languages : A History of Yeniseian Studies with an Annotated Bibliography and a Source Guide, Curzon Press: 2002 .

External links

Ethnologue: Yugh
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