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Selkup is a language spoken by the Selkup people in Siberia, belonging to the Samoyed language family. It matters as one of the indigenous languages of Russia's Arctic region, representing an important part of the cultural heritage of a small ethnic group.
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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , Krasnoyarsk Krai ( Turukhansky District ), Tomsk Oblast , Russia
- Ethnicity
- Selkup people
- Native speakers
- 600 (2020 census)
- Linguistic classification
- Uralic Samoyedic (core) Kamas –Selkup Selkup
- Subdivisions
- Northern Southern
- Iso 639 2 5
- sel
- Iso 639 3
- sel
- Glottolog
- selk1253
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Article
Selkup is the group of languages of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 600 people (2022 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian селькуп, based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, шӧльӄумыт әты (šöľqumyt əty lit. 'forest-man language'). Different dialects use different native names.
Language situation