Yurats language

Yurats
Native to Russia
Extinct early 19th century
Uralic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rts
Glottolog tund1255[1]
fore1266[2]

Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.[3]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tundra Yurak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Forest Yurak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Janhunen, Juha (1977). Samojedischer Wortschatz. Castreanumin toimitteita. 17. Helsinki. p. 8. ISBN 951-45-1161-1. ISSN 0355-0141. |


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