Does anyone know where I can find information about these languages?
I tried the archives, but there was very little there (too obscure
maybe? ;))
Anyway, here they are, listed by country of "speakers"; they are all
what is known as "isolated languages" - ie not satisfactorily related
to any others.
India - Burushaski (spoken by the Hunzakuts in NW Kashmir - actually
on both the Indian and Pakistani sides).
India - Nahali (sometimes spelt Nehali - spoken by the Nahal hill
tribe (at least I presume that's what they're called) in the West
and East Nimar districts of Madhya Pradesh state).
Japan - Ainu (spoken on North Hokkaido as well as on Sakhalin Island
and the Kuril Islands in Russia)
Russia - Gilyak (also known as Nivkh - spoken around the Amur river
and on Sakhalin Island)
Russia- p - (SORRY!) - Ket (also known as Yenisey-Ostyak) - (spoken
around the Turukhansk region near the Yenisey River)
Russia - Yukaghir (also spelt Yukhagir) - (spoken in ther Yakut
ASSR around th portions of the Indigirka and Kolmya rivers).
Actually when I searched for 'Ket' in the archived, I received 22
matched "hits" and thought "ooh!" . It turned out that they were
just words which featured the "-ket" syllable! Oh well. The only
one I had any luck with was one match for 'Ainu' and it was a request
for information as well!!!
[ To perform a case-sensitive search, be sure to use double-quotes:
// job echo=no
database search dd=rules
//rules dd *
select "Ket" in nat-lang
print all
/*
--Gary ]
Well, that's it for now. Bye!!!
Mark. (Mark Tunnell).
PS...Before I forget, if anyone has information about the extinct
languages Kott, Arin and Assan (related to Ket) and Chuvantst ...
that's supposed to be Chuvantsy and Omok (related to Yukaghir), I'd
be interested to o...the were spoken artound the same areas.
By the way, I'd appreciate cultural as well as linguistic info
about these peoples...so if anyone knows anything...write!