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Selkup language is a language
Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
 of the Selkups. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob
Ob

Ob may refer to:*Ob River, a river in West Siberia, Russia*Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the Ob River*Ob , a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia...
 and Yenisei River
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
s (in Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 "" (selkupsky yazyk}}. However, the most common native name for the language is šölqumyt ?ty, lit. forest-man language. Different dialect
Dialect

A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class....
s use different names, and these variations are shown in the infobox to the right.

The Selkup language belongs to the Samoyedic
Samoyedic languages

File:Uralic-Yukaghir.pngThe Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether....
 group of the Uralic language family
Uralic languages

The Uralic languages constitute a language families of 39 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian language, Finnish language, Estonian language, Mari language and Udmurt language....
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Selkup language is a language
Language

A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
 of the Selkups. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob
Ob

Ob may refer to:*Ob River, a river in West Siberia, Russia*Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the Ob River*Ob , a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia...
 and Yenisei River
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
s (in Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 "" (selkupsky yazyk}}. However, the most common native name for the language is šölqumyt ?ty, lit. forest-man language. Different dialect
Dialect

A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class....
s use different names, and these variations are shown in the infobox to the right.

The Selkup language belongs to the Samoyedic
Samoyedic languages

File:Uralic-Yukaghir.pngThe Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether....
 group of the Uralic language family
Uralic languages

The Uralic languages constitute a language families of 39 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian language, Finnish language, Estonian language, Mari language and Udmurt language....
. There are three main dialect
Dialect

A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class....
s in the Selkup language, including the Taz
Taz River

The Taz is a river located in western Siberia, has a length of 1 E6 m and drains a basin estimated at 150,000 km?.The Taz River flows into the Taz Estuary, a roughly 250 km long estuary that begins in the area of Tazovskiy town and ends in the Gulf of Ob....
 dialect (tazovsky dialekt), which became the basis of the Selkup written language
Written language

A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken language or sign language languages....
 in the 1930s, Tym
Tym River

Tym River is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, right tributary of the Ob River. The length of the river is 950 km. The area of its basin is 32,300 km?....
 dialect (tymsky dialekt), and Ket
Ket

Ket can also refer to:*Ket people, a people of Siberia*Ket language, the language of the Ket people*Ket River, a river in Siberia*Ket, a village in south-west Slovakia...
 dialect (ketsky dialekt). There are 25 vowel
Vowel

In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis....
 and 16 consonant
Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
 phoneme
Phoneme

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
s in the Taz dialect.

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