Omok language

{{Short description|Extinct Yukaghir language of northeast Russia}}

{{Expand language|topic=|langcode=ru|otherarticle=Омокский язык|date=February 2024}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Omok

| nativename =

| states = Russia

| region = Yakutia and Magadan Oblast

| era = last attested 1821

| ref = Matyushkin FF, Collection of the words of the Chuvansky and Omok languages, in: Vrangel F.P., Journey through the northern shores of Siberia and along the Arctic Ocean, accomplished in 1820-1824, Part 2, Additions, St. Petersburg, 1841 ;

| familycolor = Palaeosiberian

| fam1 = Yukaghir

| fam2 = Tundra Yukaghir?

| iso3 = omk

| glotto = yuka1240

| glottorefname = Malyj Anjuj Omok

| linglist = omk

| map = Yukaghir map.svg

| mapcaption = Pre-contact distribution of Omok (yellow) and other Yukaghir languages

| ethnicity = {{Ill|Omoks|ru|Омоки}}

}}

Omok is an extinct Yukaghir language of Siberia, part of a dialect continuum with two surviving languages, also referred to as an eastern dialect of Tundra Yukaghir.{{Cite web |last=Janhunen |first=Juha |last2=Salminen |first2=Tapani |date= |title=Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211093750/http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html#Chuvan |archive-date=2019-02-11 |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=helsinki.fi}} It was last spoken perhaps as late as the 18th century.{{better source needed|date=May 2024}} A wordlist of Omok, as well as its sister language Chuvan, was recorded in 1821 by Fyodor Matyushkin.{{Cite journal |last=Nikolaeva |first=Irina |date=2008 |title=Chuvan and Omok Languages? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40997572 |journal=Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics |volume=33 |pages=313–336 |issn=0169-0124}}