Yugh

Facts

Language: Yugh
Alternate names: Yug
Language code: yuu
Language family: Bookkeeping
Number of speakers: 2 or 3 (Year 1991), now extinct
Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
Script: Cyrillic script

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Introduction

Yugh is a Yeniseian language, closely related to Ket, formerly spoken by the Yugh people.

The verb

Indicative, Imperative, Irrealis, Exhortative.

Sample Verb Forms

Person	Yugh	English
Sg.1	dikuja-syget'	I talk
Sg.2	gykuja-syget'	you talk
Sg.3m	dikuja-syget'	he talks
Sg.3f	dakuja-syget'	she talks

Sg.	ʌɣynardiʔ!	cook!
Pl.	ʌɣynardi:n!	cook!

External References

http://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_yuu_morsyn-1

Verblist

to bite -- lˈapp-ɨŋ
to burn -- χɔt ~ χɔt-n
to come -- ˈi-g-bes
to die -- χoː ~ χou
to eat -- siʰːy; =a ~ =0
to fly -- dɔʰːχ
to give -- n=...=o ~ n=...=u; =aʰːχ
to kill -- ɛʰːy
to know -- it- ... -de
to lie -- =χɔt
to say -- =ma; sˈag-a-bɛʰːtʸ
to see -- t=oŋ
to sit -- sˈɛs-ta ~ sˈɛs-tɛ
to sleep -- =χɔt
to go -- e-iŋ ~ ey-iŋ; =de