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 went extinct by 1972. It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three nonfluent speakers remaining, and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.2002 Russian census data In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,2010 Russian census data while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения 3 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.
Phonology
Vowels +Vowels of YughFrontCentralBackClosei ɨ u Close-mide ə o Open-midɛ ʌ ɔ Opena
Consonants +Consonants of YughLabialAlveolarAlveolo- PalatalPalatalizedVelarUvularLaryngeal/PharyngealPlosivep t tʼ k (q )ʔ b d dʼ g Fricativef s š šʼ χ (v )z ž žʼ (R )Affricate(c )čʼ Nasalm n nʼ ŋ TrillLaterall lʼ Approximantj
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References
External links Yugh basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database Yugh at the Vanishing Peoples / Languages database