Southern Selkup language

It is considered to be a dialect of a greater Selkup language by most Russian sources, but an individual language by others. The Endangered Languages Project states that the differences between the Selkup dialects are "comparable to those between, for example, Ket, Yug, and Pumpokol". == Dialects ==

• Southern Selkup • Chumelkup (чу́мэлӄу́п) • Tym • Vasyugan • Narym • Laskino • Tyukhterevo (actually Narym) • Parabel (Chuzik possibly distinct) • lower Ob • Kyonga • Sheshkup (шё̄шӄуп) • Igotkino (Togur) • Ivankino • Inkino • Syusyukum (сӱ̄ссыӷӯм) • Ket • Upper Ket • Middle Ket • Lower Ket • Chaya • Sondrovo • Upper Ob (тюйкум, пайкум) • Upper Ob (Molchanovo) • Chulym • Tom (пайкум) == Phonology ==

Vowels Consonants Consonants in italics are not present in all dialects. == Orthography ==

Pre-literate Before the introduction of writing, Selkups would carve signs to signify numbers, as well as tamgas. Selkup texts were first published in the late 17th century with the publication of The Lord's Prayer in the southern Ob dialects by Nicolaes Witsen. Wordlists of Selkup were published in the 18th century, by Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Gerhard Friedrich Müller and . One of the Ob dialects was desctibed in a grammar by the Samoyedist Matthias Castrén in the mid-19th century. Latin and Cyrillic transcriptions were used for these works. == Morphology ==

Case The following case system is for the Narym dialect. == Vocabulary ==