Ket language

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The Ket language is a critically endangered Yeniseian language of central Siberia, spoken by the Ket people along the Yenisei River and notable for its complex morphology and debated genetic links to Na-Dene languages of North America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yeniseian language
critically endangered language
natural language
country Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
endangermentStatus critically endangered
ethnicGroup Ket people NERFINISHED
glottocode kett1243
hasAlignment nominative–accusative
hasAlternativeName Ket’ NERFINISHED
Yenisei Ostyak NERFINISHED
hasBorrowingsFrom Russian language NERFINISHED
hasCaseSystem developed case marking
hasCommunityEfforts limited revitalization activities
hasContact Russian language GENERATED
hasDocumentation grammars and dictionaries
text collections
hasGeneticRelation related to other Yeniseian languages
hasGeneticRelationHypothesis linked to Na-Dene languages
hasGeneticRelationHypothesisStatus controversial
not widely accepted consensus
hasHistoricalStatus last surviving Yeniseian language
hasLanguagePolicyContext Russian Federation minority language policy
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
incorporation
prefixing and suffixing
hasMorphology complex
hasNotableResearcher Edward Vajda NERFINISHED
Georgiy Prokofyev NERFINISHED
Heinrich Werner NERFINISHED
hasPhonologyFeature rich consonant inventory
tone or pitch accent
hasResearchField historical linguistics
language contact
language typology
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift to Russian
hasSpeakerPopulation very small number of fluent speakers
hasSpeakerTrend declining
hasTypology agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasUNESCOStatus critically endangered
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
iso6393Code ket
languageFamily Yeniseian languages NERFINISHED
region Krasnoyarsk Krai NERFINISHED
spokenAlong Yenisei River NERFINISHED
spokenIn Russia
central Siberia
usedBy Ket ethnic minority
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Dené–Yeniseian languages (proposed) involvesLanguage Ket language
subject surface form: Dené–Yeniseian languages