Selkup language

It has been suggested that this article should be split into articles titled Northern Selkup language and Southern Selkup language. (discuss) (August 2024)

Selkup
чу́мэл шэ, тюйкуй келл, шё̄шӄуй шэ̄, сӱ̄ссыӷӯй сэ̄, шöйӄумый эты
Native to	Russia
Region	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Ethnicity	Selkup people
Native speakers	1,600 (2020 census)[1]
Language family	Uralic Samoyedic (core) Kamas–Selkup Selkup
Language codes
ISO 639-2	sel
ISO 639-3	sel
Glottolog	selk1253
Traditional (a) and current (b) distribution of Selkup[2][3]
Northern Selkup is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Selkup is the language of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 1,570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian селькуп, based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, шӧльӄумыт әты (šöľqumyt əty lit. 'forest-man language'). Different dialects use different names.

Selkup is fractured in an extensive dialect continuum whose ends are no longer mutually intelligible. The three main varieties are the Taz (Northern) dialect (тазовский диалект, tazovsky dialekt), which became the basis of the Selkup written language in the 1930s, Tym (Central) dialect (тымский диалект, tymsky dialekt), and Ket dialect (кетский диалект, ketsky dialekt). It is not related to the Ket language.