The Yeniseian group is spoken in the Turukhansk region along the Yenisey River. |
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Their language, Ket, is the last true survivor of the Yeniseian group spoken in the area. |
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This includes the conventional Uralic and Altaic groups, the Paleo-Siberian languages that Uwe Seefloth has connected to Uralic, and Yeniseian. |
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The third layer loaded since the Bronze Age could be of Yeniseian, it could result in a Sino-Yeniseian corpus of common etymological units. |
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Schrenck's hypothesis is quite correct to the extent that as recently as the 17th century Yeniseian, Luorawetlan, and Yukaghir languages were spoken over much wider territories than they are today. |
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However, for distant areas such as the Yeniseian North, which was incorporated into the Czarist Empire as late as the 17th century, adequate historical data is scarce. |
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Linguists have long held that both the Yeniseian languages in Siberia and the, Na-Dene languages in North America have no known relatives among other languages in the world. |
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