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Contents.Homeland According to a 2016 study, Yeniseian people and their language originated likely somewhere near the or near. According to this study, the Yeniseians are linked to groups. Family division 0. Proto-Yeniseian 1. Northern Yeniseian 1.1. (200 speakers) 1.2. (1 speaker) 2.
Southern Yeniseian † 2.1. † (extinct by the mid-1800s) 2.1.2. † (extinct by 1800) 2.2. † (extinct by 1800) 2.2.2. † (extinct by 1750) 2.2.3.?
† (extinct or evolved into Pumpokol)Only two languages of this family survived into the 20th century, (also known as Imbat Ket), with around 200 speakers, and (also known as Sym Ket), which is now extinct. The other known members of this family, Arin, Assan, Pumpokol, and Kott, have been extinct for over two centuries. Other groups – Buklin, Baikot, Yarin, Yastin, Ashkyshtym, and Koibalkyshtym – are identifiable as Yeniseic-speaking from tsarist fur-tax records compiled during the 17th century, but nothing remains of their languages except a few proper names.It appears from Chinese sources that a Yeniseian group might have been among the peoples that made up the tribal confederation known as the, who have traditionally been considered the ancestors of the and other Northern Asian groups, but these suggestions are difficult to substantiate due to the paucity of data.
It is suggested that at least parts of the Xiongnu, possibly the ruling part, spoke a Yeniseian language. One sentence of the language of the, a Xiongnu tribe who founded the state, appears consistent with being a Yeniseian language. Later study suggests that Jie is closer to Pumpokol than to other Yeniseian languages such as Ket.connecting Yeniseian to, one of the major language families of indigenous peoples in, has been met with a cautious welcome.Family features The Yeniseian languages share many with the South,. These include long-distance, the development of former to, and the use of or grammatical as. Yeniseic nominal enclitics closely approximate the systems of geographically contiguous families.
Despite these similarities, Yeniseian appears to stand out among the languages of Siberia in several respects, such as the presence of, the verb inflection, and highly complex.The Yeniseian languages have been described as having up to four tones or no tones at all. The 'tones' are concomitant with, and, not unlike the situation reconstructed for before the development of true tones in Chinese. The Yeniseian languages have highly elaborate.Phonology.