Yugh language

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Numerals in Yeniseian languages

Yugh (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; 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. In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh, while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted, 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.

Phonology

Vowels

Vowels of Yugh

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i Template:IPAblink	ɨ Template:IPAblink	u Template:IPAblink
Close-mid	e Template:IPAblink	ə Template:IPAblink	o Template:IPAblink
Open-mid	ɛ Template:IPAblink	ʌ Template:IPAblink	ɔ Template:IPAblink
Open		a Template:IPAblink

Consonants

Consonants of Yugh

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal
Plosive	voiceless	p Template:IPAblink	t Template:IPAblink	tʼ Template:IPAblink	k Template:IPAblink	(q Template:IPAblink)	ʔ Template:IPAblink
	voiced	b Template:IPAblink	d Template:IPAblink	dʼ Template:IPAblink	g Template:IPAblink
Fricative	voiceless	f Template:IPAblink	s Template:IPAblink/š Template:IPAblink/šʼ Template:IPAblink			χ Template:IPAblink
	voiced	(v Template:IPAblink)	z Template:IPAblink/ž Template:IPAblink/žʼ Template:IPAblink	j Template:IPAblink	Template:IPAblink	(R Template:IPAblink)
Affricate			(c Template:IPAblink)	čʼ Template:IPAblink
Nasal		m Template:IPAblink	n Template:IPAblink	nʼ Template:IPAblink	ŋ Template:IPAblink
Trill			Template:IPAblink
Lateral			l Template:IPAblink/lʼ Template:IPAblink

External links

• Yugh basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• Yugh at the Vanishing Peoples / Languages database