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Paleo-Siberian languages
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Within Vinony's link graph, Paleo-Siberian languages is referenced by 190 other articles, and connects out to Michael Fortescue, language family and Nivkh.
It sits within the topics Families missing Glottolog code, History of Northeast Asia and Paleo-Siberian languages.
Its subject is documented across 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Siberia
- Linguistic classification
- Not a single family
- Subdivisions
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan Nivkh Yeniseian Yukaghir
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- human language
- Image
- Paleo-Siberian languages.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Paleo-Siberian languages
- linguistic typology
- polysynthetic language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 11000
- topic has template
- Template:Paleo-Siberian languages
- indigenous to
- Siberia
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Paleo-Siberian languages are a group of four language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia. They are not known to have any genetic relationship to each other; their only widely accepted link is that they are held to have antedated the more dominant languages, particularly Tungusic and latterly Turkic languages, that have largely displaced them. Even more recently, Turkic (at least in Siberia) and especially Tungusic have been displaced in their turn by Russian.
Classifications
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paleo-Siberian languages” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.