Kettish

Definitions

Synonym of Ket (“the Yeniseian language of the Ket people”).

Examples

“Indeed it should be added that recent research⟳ has shown that a few little known languages—Kettish, the extinct Kottish, and two or more—which were spoken on the upper Yenisei River in the immediate vicinity of Finno-Ugrian languages and were originally supposed to belong⟳ to that family, are in fact not related to it, or apparently any other language, and form⟳ a little family of their own⟳.”

“On the other hand, as Ligeti (1950) was the first to point⟳ out, there is a good possibility that they may have⟳ spoken a language belonging to the Palaeo-Siberian family, the only surviving member of which is Kettish, also known as Yenissei-Ostyak.”

“His tenative suggestion is that the Xiongnu language belonged to the Paleo-Siberian family, now represented only by Kettish, or Yenissei-Ostyak.”

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