Selkup language is a language of the Selkups. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. The language name Selkup comes from the Russian cелькупский язык sel'kupskij jazyk. However, the most common native name for the language is шӧльӄумыт әты šöľqumyt әty, literally 'forest-man language'. Different dialects use different names, and these variations are shown in the infobox to the right. Yamalia (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether. ... The Southern Samoyedic languages are a subgroup of the Samoyedic languages. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Selkups (Селькупы in Russian, former name until 1930s - остяко-самоеды, or ostyak-samoyeds) are a people in Siberia, Russia. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... OB can stand for: OtakuBoards, a message board, with its main focus set at anime. ... The Yenisei (Енисе́й) is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, slightly shorter but with 1. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ...

The Selkup language belongs to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. There are three main dialects in the Selkup language, including the Taz dialect (Тазовский диалект tazovskij dialekt), which became the basis of the Selkup written language in the 1930s, Tym dialect (Тымский диалект tymskij dialekt), and Ket dialect (Кетский диалект ketskij dialekt). There are 25 vowel and 16 consonant phonemes in the Taz dialect. Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether. ... Geographical distribution of Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric and Yukaghir languages The Uralic languages form a language family of about 30 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... The river Taz is located in western Siberia and has a length of 1401 km (871 miles). ... A written language is a language that uses a writing system to convey meaning, or more generally the written form of any language that has such written components. ... // Events and trends A public speech by Benito Mussolini, founder of the Fascist movement The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Ket has several meanings: Half of a bra-ket Slang for Ketamine The Ket language, spoken in Siberia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure above the glottis. ... A consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture of the vocal tract sufficient to cause audible turbulence. ... In human language, a phoneme is a set of phones (speech sounds or sign elements) that are cognitively equivalent. ...

External links

• Ethnologue report for Selkup
• Selkup-English glossary
• Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: The Selkup Language
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire: The Selkups