Yurats | |
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Yurak | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | west of the Yenisey |
Extinct | early 19th century [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
rts |
Glottolog |
yura1256 Yurats |
Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. [1] Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets. [2] Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets. [3] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language. [4] Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets. [5]
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