Selkup

a branch of Samoyed languages
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Selkup

Summary

Selkup is a language subfamily[1]. Selkup draws 117 Wikipedia views per month (language_subfamily category, ranking #4 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Selkup is in the country of Russia[3].
  • Selkup's instance of is recorded as language subfamily[4].
  • Selkup's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Selkup is a type of Samoyedic[6].
  • Selkup is a type of Southern Samoyedic[7].
  • Selkup's writing system is recorded as Cyrillic script[8].
  • Selkup's writing system is recorded as Selkup graphics[9].
  • Selkup comprises Southern Selkup[10].
  • Selkup comprises Northern Selkup[11].
  • Selkup's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Selkup language[12].
  • Selkup's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+1023'}[13].
  • Selkup's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+600'}[14].
  • Selkup's indigenous to is recorded as Krasnoyarsk Krai[15].
  • Selkup's indigenous to is recorded as Tomsk Oblast[16].
  • Selkup's indigenous to is recorded as Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug[17].
  • Selkup's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SEL[18].
  • Selkup's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133078728[19].
  • Selkup's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[20].
  • Selkup's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[21].
  • Selkup's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[22].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include language subfamily[4] and modern language[5]. Recorded subclass of include Samoyedic[6] and Southern Samoyedic[7].

Use and Application

Components include Southern Selkup[10], a language[23], in Russia[24] and Northern Selkup[11], a language[25], in Russia[26].

Why It Matters

Selkup draws 117 Wikipedia views per month (language_subfamily category, ranking #4 of 9).[2] Selkup has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Selkup is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Samoyedic: General introduction. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Selkup. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . gks.ru. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Selkup. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Endangeredlanguages.com id ['8554', '8553', '8555']
    Subclass of Samoyedic, Southern Samoyedic
    Linguistic typology subject–object–verb, agglutinative language
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