Kott people

Kotts
Kott: kottuen; котюан;
Total population
	merged into Russians and Buryats
Languages
	Russian language, Buryat language, Kott language (historically)
Related ethnic groups
	Asan people, Arin people [ru], Ket people, Yugh people, other Yeniseian people

The Kott people were a nomadic Yeniseian-speaking people in Siberia, living along the Kan and Biryusa rivers. They were closely related to the Asan people (who are also extinct). They spoke the Kott language, which went extinct in the 1850s.^[1]^[2]

^ Wixman, Ronald (1984). The peoples of the USSR: an ethnographic handbook. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-506-6.
^ Forsyth, James (2008-08-21). History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.

[1] Wixman, Ronald (1984). The peoples of the USSR: an ethnographic handbook. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-506-6.

[2] Forsyth, James (2008-08-21). History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.

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