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A Descriptive Grammar of Ket

By Stefan Georg

Book information

Publisher
Global Oriental
Year
2007
ISBN
1901903583, 9781901903584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2546821 bytes)
Series
The Languages of Northern and Central Eurasia
Volume
I, Introduction, Phonology, Morphology
Pages
328\319
Time added
2014-09-29 01:31:38

Description

Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, all of which are completely extinct, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives. This "Grammar of Ket" constitutes the first book of its kind in English and is structured as follows: Introduction; The Kets and their Language; Phonology; Morphology; and, References. A second volume is planned on Ket Syntax, supported by a collection of original texts with translations and annotations.

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