Social:Kott language

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Short description: Extinct Yeniseian language of Siberia
Kott
Native toRussia
EthnicityKott, Asan
Extinct19th Century
Dené–Yeniseian?
Dialects
  • Kott
  • Assan
Language codes
ISO 639-3zko
Glottologkott1239[1]

The Kott (Kot) language (Russian: Коттский язык) is an extinct Yeniseian language that was formerly spoken in central Siberia by the banks of Mana River, a tributary of the Yenisei river. It became extinct in the 1850s. Kott was closely related to Ket, still spoken farther north along the Yenisei river. Assan, a close relative, is sometimes considered a dialect of Kott.[2]

In 1858, Matthias Castrén published the grammar and dictionary (Versuch einer jenissei-ostjakischen und kottischen Sprachlehre), which included material on the Kott and Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) languages. There also exists a book made by G.K.Verner "kottskij jazyk" about the Kott language.[3]

Cases in Kott according to Castrén

Kott had been influenced by Turkic languages, and had borrowed some words from Turkic languages. For example Kott baktîr- ‘to praise’ comes from Proto-Turkic *paktïr or Kott kolá ‘copper, brass’ comes from Proto-Turkic *kola.[4]

Kott has special end markings to indicate that the noun being described is a hydronym which are -šet/čet[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kott-Assan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kott1239. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Werner, Heinrich (1997) (in de). Abriß der kottischen Grammatik. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 13. ISBN 3-447-03971-X. 
  3. Verner, G. K. (Г. К. Вернер) (1990) (in ru). Kottsky yazyk. Rostov-na-Donu: Izdatel'stvo rostovskogo universiteta. ISBN 5-7507-0357-6. 
  4. Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2015). "Some Remarks on Turkic Elements of Mongolic Origin in Yeniseian" (in en). Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 20 (2): 111–126. doi:10.4467/20843836SE.15.008.2794. 

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