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زبان سلکوپی
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a branch of Samoyed languages
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Samoyedic
- Country
- Russia
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- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 600
- topic's main category
- Category:Selkup language
- P10369
- Quimper
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
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