Yurats language

Not to be confused with Nenets languages, also called Yurak.
Yurats
Yurak
Native toRussia
Regionwest of the Yenisey, Gyda Peninsula
EthnicityYurats
Extinctearly 19th century
Uralic
Language codes
ISO 639-3rts
Glottologyura1256  Yurats
Yurats is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2001)

Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century, due to the expansion of the Nenets people. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets. While it is marginally closer to Enets rather than Nenets, it does not show a majority of either Enets or Nenets features. Some eastern dialects of Tundra Nenets may have a Yurats substrate, as the Yurats were likely absorbed by the Tundra Nenets. The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language. Nevertheless, Glottolog considers it to be a dialect of Tundra Nenets, as is the traditional assumption.

References

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