Selkup languages
Template:Short description Template:Expand language Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other 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 Script error: No such module "Lang"., based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Lit). 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 (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".), which became the basis of the Selkup written language in the 1930s, Tym (Central) dialect (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".), and Ket dialect (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".). It is not related to the Ket language.
Some have proposed to split Selkup into two different languages, termed Northern Selkup and Southern Selkup.[1][2] According to the Endangered Languages Project, the differences between dialects are "comparable to those between, for instance, Ket, Yug, and Pumpokol".[3][4][5]
Grammar
Southern Selkup
Noun
| Case name | Ending | Meaning | Example | Meaning of the example | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative case | Script error: No such module "IPA". | subject | Script error: No such module "Lang". | forest (as a subject) | |
| Accusative case | Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (rare) | direct object | Script error: No such module "Lang". | forest (as an object) | |
| Genitive case | Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (rare) | possession | Script error: No such module "Lang". | of a forest | |
| Dative case | animate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | indirect object (animate) | Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". | to the person |
| inanimate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | indirect object (inanimate) | Script error: No such module "Lang". | to the forest | |
| Inessive case | animate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | the X has | Script error: No such module "Lang". | the person has |
| inanimate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | in | Script error: No such module "Lang". | in the forest | |
| Elative case | Script error: No such module "Lang". | out of, from, along | Script error: No such module "Lang". | out of the forest | |
| Instrumental-comitative case | Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (with nouns denoting means of transport, always stressed) | with | Script error: No such module "Lang". | with the forest | |
| Abessive case | Script error: No such module "Lang". | without | Script error: No such module "Lang". | without the forest | |
| Translative case | Script error: No such module "Lang". | into | Script error: No such module "Lang". | [turn] into a forest | |
| Exessive caseTemplate:Efn | animate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | from | Script error: No such module "Lang". | from the person |
| inanimate | Script error: No such module "Lang". | from | Script error: No such module "Lang". | from the forest | |
References
Works cited
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External links
- Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: The Selkup Language
- The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire: The Selkups
- Audio of a man telling a story in Selkup
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