Assan language
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Before its extinction, in 1735-1740, there were two to three speakers of Assan.[3]
Classification
It has been difficult to properly classify the Yeniseian languages into a larger family. It is only recently that a possible link to the Na-Dené languages, a family of Indigenous language of the Americas spoken in Alaska, Western Canada and the southwestern United States, was suggested by Heinrich Werner. According to this argument, the Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages form two branches of an ancient family represented on both sides of the Bering Strait: the Dené–Yeniseian languages.[4]
Assan itself was very close to Kott, another extinct Yeniseian language, such that Assan is usually represented as a dialect of Kott.[5][6][7] However, due to its poor attestation, its status is unclear.[8]
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal/ Postalveolar |
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| voicedScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | (Template:IPA link) | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | (Template:IPA link) | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | ||
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| Affricate | voiceless | Template:IPA link | ||||||
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| Nasal | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |||||
| Lateral | Template:IPA link | |||||||
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| Trill | Template:IPA link | |||||||
Notes and references
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Sources
- (ru) Г.К. Вернер (Heinrich Werner), Енисейскиe языки, dans Языки Мира, Палеоазиатские Языки, pp. 169-177, Moscou, Izd. Indrik, 1997 Template:ISBN.
- (ru) Г.С. Старостин, К.Ю. Решетников, Кетский сборник. Лингвистика, Moscou, Vostotchnaya Literatura RAN, 1995 Template:ISBN.
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