Kotten (people)
The Kotten were a Paleo-Siberian people who spoke a southern Jenisese language . Matthias Alexander Castrén reported in his work published by Anton Schiefner in 1858 about the Yenisei-Ostyak and Scottish languages that few Scottish families still lived on the rivers Kungm and Vljka and near the cities of Kansk , Barnaul and in the villages of Jelansk and Ansir. They are animists and build tents out of birch bark. Today their descendants are part of the Turkic speaking Khakass .
Individual evidence
- ↑ MA Castrén, attempt at a Yenisei-Ostyak and Kottische linguistic theory , ed. by A. Schiefner, St. Petersburg 1858
Web links
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888 : Kotten