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Also known as Yenisei Ostyak language, Yenisey-Ostyak, Ket language
language isolate in Siberia
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /ostɨ̀kanna qaˀ/ , [ɔs˩˧.tɯ˥˩.ɣan.na qaʔ˥˧]
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Ethnicity
- 1,088 Ket (2021)
- Native speakers
- <30 (2024) , 153 (2020 census)
- Language family
- Yeniseian Ketic Ket
- Dialects
- Northern Central Southern
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Recognised minority language in
- Russia Krasnoyarsky Krai Evenkiysky District Turukhansky District
- Iso 639 3
- ket
- Glottolog
- kett1243
- Elp
- Ket
- Linguasphere
- 43-AAA-a
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Yeniseian
- Country
- Russia
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 213
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- topic's main category
- Category:Ket language
- indigenous to
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Commons category
- Ket language
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Ket (/ˈkɛt/ KET) language, or more specifically Imbak and formerly known as Yenisei Ostyak (/ˈɒstiæk/ OSS-tee-ak), is the sole surviving language of the Yeniseian language family. It is spoken along the middle Yenisei basin by the Ket people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.