Selkup languages
| Selkup | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Turukhansky District), Tomsk Oblast, Russia |
| Ethnicity | Selkup people |
Native speakers | 600 (2020 census) |
| Linguistic classification | Uralic |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | sel |
| ISO 639-3 | sel |
| Glottolog | selk1253 |
Traditional (a) and current (b) distribution of Selkup | |
Selkup is the group of languages of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 600 people (2022 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian селькуп, based on the native name used in the Taz dialect, шӧльӄумыт әты (šöľqumyt əty lit. 'forest-man language'). Different dialects use different native names.