Yurats language

Yurats
Yurats
Yurak
Native to	Russia
Region	west of the Yenisey, Gyda Peninsula
Ethnicity	Yurats
Extinct	early 19th century
Language family	Uralic Samoyedic (core) Enets–Nenets Yurats; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rts
Glottolog	yura1256 Yurats
	Yurats is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2001)

Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century, due to the expansion of the Nenets people.^[1] Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.^[2] While it is marginally closer to Enets rather than Nenets, it does not show a majority of either Enets or Nenets features.^[3] Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets.^[4] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.^[5] Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets, as is the traditional assumption.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2007). "Europe and North Asia". Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-56331-4. OCLC 47983733.
^ Janhunen, Juha (1977). Samojedischer Wortschatz. Castreanumin toimitteita. Vol. 17. Helsinki. p. 8. ISBN 951-45-1161-1. ISSN 0355-0141.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
^ "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki. 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
^ Siegl, Florian (2013). Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern Siberia (PDF). Helsinki: Société Finno-Ougrienne. p. 35. ISBN 978-952-5667-46-2 – via Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura.
^ "Glottolog 5.0 - Yurats". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-06-20.

External links

UNESCO red book entry (144K)
Dictionary of the Samoyedic languages (includes Yurats) (in German)

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[:0-1] Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2007). "Europe and North Asia". Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-56331-4. OCLC 47983733.

[2] Janhunen, Juha (1977). Samojedischer Wortschatz. Castreanumin toimitteita. Vol. 17. Helsinki. p. 8. ISBN 951-45-1161-1. ISSN 0355-0141.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[salminen-3] Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.

[4] "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki. 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.

[5] Siegl, Florian (2013). Materials on Forest Enets, an Indigenous Language of Northern Siberia (PDF). Helsinki: Société Finno-Ougrienne. p. 35. ISBN 978-952-5667-46-2 – via Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura.

[6] "Glottolog 5.0 - Yurats". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-06-20.

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