Yugh language

{{Short description|Extinct Yeniseian language of Russia}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Yugh

| altname = Sym Ket, Yug

| nativename = {{lang|yug|Дьук}} {{transliteration|yug|Ďuk}}

| pronunciation = {{IPA|yug|ɟuk|}}

| states = Russia

| region = Yenisei River

| ethnicity = 7 Yughs (2020)

| extinct = 1972

| familycolor = Dené-Yeniseian

| fam2 = Yeniseian

| fam3 = Ketic

| linglist = yug

| glotto = yugh1239

| glottorefname = Yugh

| glotto2 = yugh1240

| glottoname2 = additional bibliography

| glottorefname2 = Yugh (Retired)

| ref = {{Citation |last=Vajda |first=Edward |title=8 The Yeniseian language family |date=2024-02-19 |work=The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia |pages=365–480 |editor-last=Vajda |editor-first=Edward |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110556216-008/html |access-date=2024-06-26 |publisher=De Gruyter |doi=10.1515/9783110556216-008 |isbn=978-3-11-055621-6|url-access=subscription }}

| speakers2 = 2–3 nonfluent speakers (1991){{Cite journal |last=Kibrik |first=Aleksandr E. |date=March 1991|title=The Problem of Endangered Languages in the USSR |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0392192100322519/type/journal_article |journal=Diogenes |language=en |volume=39 |issue=153 |pages=67–83 |doi=10.1177/039219219103915305 |issn=0392-1921|url-access=subscription }}

3 (2020)[https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab7_VPN-2020.xlsx Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку]

| map = File:Yeniseian_languages_map.svg

| mapcaption = Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages.

| map2 = Lang Status 01-EX.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Yug is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)}}}}

| lc2 = yuu

| lc1 = yug

| ld1 = Yug

| ld2 = Yugh (deprecated)

}}

File:Table 1. Yeniseic numbers.png

Yugh ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|j|u:|g}} {{respell|YOOG}}; Yug) is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people, one of the southern groups along the Yenisei River in central Siberia.{{cite web

|last=Vajda

|first=Edward J.

|url=http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm

|title=The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples

|access-date=2006-10-27

|archive-date=2019-04-06

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406214043/http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm

|url-status=dead

}} It went extinct by 1972. It was once regarded as a dialect of the Ket language, which was considered to be a language isolate, and was therefore called Sym Ket or Southern Ket; however, the Ket considered it to be a distinct language. By the early 1990s there were only two or three nonfluent speakers remaining,{{Ethnologue15|yug}} and the language was virtually extinct. The 2002 census recorded 19 ethnic Yugh in all of Russia.[http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_03.xls 2002 Russian census data] In the 2010 census, only one ethnic Yugh was counted, also stating their proficiency in Yugh,[http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/per-itog/tab5.xls 2010 Russian census data] while in the 2020 census, 7 ethnic Yugh were counted,[https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 1. Национальный состав населения] 2 of them stating that they were speakers of Yugh.