Assan language
Assan | |
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kottuen | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Ethnicity | Asan people |
Extinct | 18th century |
Language family | Dené–Yeniseian?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xss (retired) |
Linguist List | xss |
Glottolog | assa1266 (retired) |
IETF | xss |
The Assan language (Russian: Ассанский язык) was a Yeniseian language spoken to the south of Krasnoyarsk in Russia. It went extinct in the 18th century.
It has been difficult to properly classify the Yeniseian languages into a larger family. It is only recently that a possible link to the Na-Dené languages, a family of Indigenous language of the Americas spoken in Alaska, Western Canada and the southwestern United States, was suggested by Heinrich Werner. According to this argument, the Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages form two branches of an ancient family represented on both sides of the Bering Strait: the Dené–Yeniseian languages.[1]
Assan itself was very close to Kott, another extinct Yeniseian language, such that Assan is sometimes represented as a dialect of Kott.[2][3]
Notes and references
Sources
- (ru) Г.К. Вернер (Heinrich Werner), Енисейскиe языки, dans Языки Мира, Палеоазиатские Языки, pp. 169-177, Moscou, Izd. Indrik, 1997 ISBN 5-85759-046-9.
- (ru) Г.С. Старостин, К.Ю. Решетников, Кетский сборник. Лингвистика, Moscou, Vostotchnaya Literatura RAN, 1995 ISBN 5-88766-023-6.
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Kott–Assan |
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Arin–Pumpokol |
- Yastin
- Baikot
- Yarin
- Italics indicate extinct languages.