Asan people

Asans
kottuen
Total population
merged into Evenki people and Russians
Regions with significant populations
southern Siberia, along the Yenisey
Languages
Evenki language, Russian language, formerly Assan language
Related ethnic groups
Kott people, other Yeniseian people

The Asan or Assan were a Yeniseian speaking, hunter-fisherer[1] people in Siberia, distinct from the Kotts.[2] In the 18th and 19th centuries they were assimilated by the Evenki and Russians.[1] They spoke the Assan language, closely related to, and can be considered a dialect of,[3] Kott. The Assans, after their migration down the Yenisei river, settled around the Usolka [ru] and Biryusa rivers. By the time of the publication of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, there were less than 100 scattered families left of them, and they had been Turkicized.[4]

  1. ^ a b "АСАНЫ" [Asans]. Советская историческая энциклопедия (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024-02-19), Vajda, Edward (ed.), "8 The Yeniseian language family", The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia, De Gruyter, pp. 365–480, doi:10.1515/9783110556216-008, ISBN 978-3-11-055621-6, retrieved 2024-06-26
  3. ^ Fortescue, Michael D.; Vajda, Edward J. (2022). Mid-holocene language connections between Asia and North America. Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-43681-7.
  4. ^ Андреевский, Иван Ефимович; Арсеньев, Константин Константинович; Петрушевский, Фёдор Фомич (eds.). "Котты". Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона. Retrieved 2024-08-04.