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Samoyedic language of Siberia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selkup is the language 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 селькуп, based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, шӧльӄумыт әты šöľqumyt əty, lit. 'forest-man language'. Different dialects use different names.
 | It has been suggested that this article should be split into articles titled Northern Selkup language and Southern Selkup language. (discuss) (August 2024) |
| Selkup | |
|---|---|
| чу́мэл шэ, тюйкуй келл, шё̄шӄуй шэ̄, сӱ̄ссыӷӯй сэ̄, шöйӄумый эты | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
| Ethnicity | Selkup people |
Native speakers | 1,600 (2020 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | sel |
| ISO 639-3 | sel |
| Glottolog | selk1253 |
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 Northern Selkup is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Selkup is fractured in an extensive dialect continuum whose ends are no longer mutually intelligible. The three main varieties are the Taz (Northern) dialect (тазовский диалект, tazovsky dialekt), which became the basis of the Selkup written language in the 1930s, Tym (Central) dialect (тымский диалект, tymsky dialekt), and Ket dialect (кетский диалект, ketsky dialekt). It is not related to the Ket language.
There are 25 vowel and 16 consonant phonemes in the Taz dialect.
Selkup has a syllable structure (C)V(C). Word-initial /ŋ/ and word-final /tʲ/ or /w/ do not occur. Various consonant clusters and geminate consonants such as /nt/, /rm/, /ʃʲʃʲ/ may occur, though many potential combinations occurring morphologically are simplified.
Stress in Selkup is marginally phonemic. Generally the rightmost long vowel in a word is stressed, or otherwise the first syllable, but certain suffixes with short vowels may acquire stress, leading to minimal pairs such as [ˈtɕɛlʲtɕalqo] 'to stamp down' vs. [tɕɛlʲˈtɕalqo] 'to stamp once'.
| Case name | Ending | Meaning | Example | Meaning of the example | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative case | ∅ | subject | маҗь | forest (as a subject) | |
| Accusative case | -п, -м (rare) | direct object | ма́җеп | forest (as an object) | |
| Genitive case | -т, -н (rare) | possession | ма́җет | of a forest | |
| Dative case | animate | -н | indirect object (animate) | ӄун, ӄумн | to the person |
| inanimate | -нд | indirect object (inanimate) | маҗӧ́нд | to the forest | |
| Inessive case | animate | -нан | the X has | ӄу́нан | the person has |
| inanimate | -ӷэт/-ӄэт | in | маҗӧ́ӷэт | in the forest | |
| Elative case | -эутэ/-утэ | out of, from, along | маҗӧ́утэ | out of the forest | |
| Instrumental-comitative case | -ӽе/-хе, -э́ (with nouns denoting means of transport, always stressed) | with | маҗьӽе́ | with the forest | |
| Abessive case | -галк/-калк | without | маҗьга́лк | without the forest | |
| Translative case | -тӄо | into | маҗетӄо́ | [turn] into a forest | |
| Exessive case[a] | animate | -ндо/-эндо | from | ку́ндо | from the person |
| inanimate | -ӷэндо/-ӄэндо | from | маҗӧ́ӷэндо | from the forest | |
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