Yurats | |
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Native to | Russia |
Extinct | early 19th century |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rts |
Glottolog | yura1256 Yurats |
Yurats (Yurak) was a Samoyedic language spoken in the Siberian tundra west of the Yenisei River. It became extinct in the early 19th century. Yurats was probably either a transitional variety connecting the Nenets and Enets languages of the Samoyedic family, or an archaic dialect of Enets.[1] The uncertainty regarding the language's status is due to the scarcity of information about the language.[2]