Uralic family

Selkup

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Selkup (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Uralic language. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Samoyedic → Selkup.

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Speakers
1K (1,000)
ISO 639-3
sel
Glottocode
selk1253

Southern Samoyedic language of western Siberia, severely endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Samoyedicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
  3. Selkupc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Samoyedic.

Sources