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🧑‍🦰 An indigenous group 🗣️ A Siberian language
Selkup

Selkup

9.9
A native language of a small people in Siberia
  • noun
: selkup
  • Only a few thousand people speak Selkup in remote regions of Siberia.

Examples

  • The Selkup language is endangered, with efforts being made to preserve it.

  • She is conducting research on the grammar of Selkup.

  • The Selkup language is rich in vocabulary.

  • The Selkup language is part of the Uralic family.

  • Only a few thousand people speak Selkup, the Uralic language, in remote regions of Siberia.

  • She is conducting research on the grammar and syntax of Selkup to help document the language.

  • The Selkup language is endangered, which has sparked new initiatives for its preservation and study.

Synonyms

Ostyak-Samoyed language
vsSelkup
  • Archaic
9.9

A language that the Selkup people speak in northern Russia

means the same language but uses the standard current name
Ostyak-Samoyed
vsSelkup
  • Archaic
9.9

A language spoken by the Selkup people in Siberia

is the modern preferred name rather than the older label
Selkup language
vsSelkup
9.9

A language that the Selkup people speak in northern Siberia

is broader, covering Siberia as a whole rather than only the north

Compounds

Selkup language
9.9

A language that the Selkup people speak in northern Siberia

Surface Forms

Selkup singular
Selkups plural

Etymology

Selkup comes from the name the people use for themselves in their own Uralic language, so the word refers to 'the language spoken by that group'.