Ket (language)

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Ket
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ket

Distribution of the Yenisan languages ​​in the 17th century (hatched red) and in the 20th century (red)

The Ketan language , also simply Ket , German also traditionally called Yenisei-Ostyakisch, is the only survivor of the Yenisei languages and is considered an isolated Paleosiberian language. The Ketische, the traditional language of the people of ketene is in danger of extinction: 1989 The language had 537 speakers in 2010 there were only 213 speakers.

The Ketic was first documented in 1788 in the travel diary of PS Pallas . Matthias Alexander Castrén published a first grammar and a first dictionary of the Ketian in 1858. A monograph by the American Edward Vajda from 2004 is the first modern teaching grammar of the Ketian language in English. He lives and works in the Yenisei region.

Vajda sees the Ketic tone system most closely related to Vietnamese . In February 2008 he presented his Dene-Yenissei hypothesis , which combines Athabaskan , Eyak and Tlingit with Ketic. This group includes B. also the language of the Navajo .

The ketic has seven vowel and 12 consonant phonemes and five tones.

literature

  • Stefan Georg: A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei Ostyak) . Volume I: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology. Global Oriental, Folkestone (Kent) 2007, ISBN 978-1-901903-58-4 , ( The languages ​​of Asia p. 1).
  • Kausen, Ernst: The language families of the world. Part 1: Europe and Asia. Buske, Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-87548-655-1 . (Chapter 10)
  • Heinrich Werner: The Ketic Language. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03908-6 .
  • Edward J. Vajda: The Kets and Their Language. In: Mother Tongue 4, 1998, ISSN  1087-0326 , pp. 4-16.
  • Edward J. Vajda: Ket. Lincom Europa, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89586-221-5 , ( Languages ​​of the world - Materials 204).

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  1. ↑ Human rights report No. 63  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Society for Threatened Peoples  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 46 March 2010 @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gfbv.de   @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gfbv.de  
  2. ↑ homepage E. Vajda; http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/about.htm