Selkupic language

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Selkupic

Spoken in

Russia
speaker approx. 1,500
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

sel

ISO 639-3

sel

The Selkupic language (formerly known as Ostjak Samoyed or Forest Samoyed) is one of the Samoyed languages . Together with the Finno-Ugric languages, these form the Uralic language family . Selkupian is the only remaining South Samoyed language. It is spoken by the Selkup people in the region between the Ob and Yenisei rivers . The number of native speakers is given as around 1,500 (about half of the Selkupian people). In everyday dealings, however, Russian is becoming more and more popular . Some schools still teach in North Selkupian up to fourth grade.

The word Selkup (šöľqup) originally means people in the north .

Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, there were only a few religious texts that were recorded in the Selkupian language as part of Christianization. A Selkupic written language was systematically developed only in 1931. At first the Latin alphabet was used . From 1940 and revised 1986, the Cyrillic alphabet was used . Important researchers of Selkupic were Matthias Alexander Castrén and Kai Donner .

Dialects

Selkupic distinguishes three dialects:

  • Taz (тазовский диалект): North Elkupian. The written language is based on it. Taz includes 25 vowels and 16 consonants . The name is derived from the settlement areas on the river Tas (Таз). The dialect is spoken by about 90% of the Selkup people. Today it is used by up to 1,400 speakers from around 1,700 members of the people
  • Tym (тымский диалект): Middle Elkupian. Named after the river Tym (Тым), a tributary of the Ob. Today around 150 speakers (out of 1700 members of the people)
  • Ket (кетский диалект): South Elkupian. Named after the river Ket (Кеть), an influx of the Ob. Today around 20 speakers (from around 200 members of the people)

Web links

literature

  • Jarmo Alatalo: Phonological irregularities in Selkup morphology and their origin . In: Materials for the international uralistic symposium Diachronie in the synchronous language description, Hamburg, 6. – 10. October 1999. Finnish-Ugric communications 23: 1-9. Hamburg 2001
  • Jarmo Alatalo: Sölkupisches dictionary from notes by Kai Donner, UT Sirelius and Jarmo Alatalo . 2004
  • Péter Hajdú: Chrestomathia Samoiedica . Budapest 1968, pp. 58-65