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The Southern Selkups of Tomsk Province before and after 1991

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Florian Sobanski
Florian Sobanski*
Affiliation:
German Language Center, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
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The Selkups, a linguistic community known as Ostyak Samoyeds until the middle of the twentieth century, currently exist in two separate territorial groups in the regions of west-central and northwestern Siberia. In all, 3,612 people identified themselves as Selkups in the last Soviet census of 1989. Since there is great divergence in dialects among the various groups, some specialists suggest classifying them as three different languages: Northern, Central, and Southern Selkup. Here the Selkups of Tomsk province, who speak the central and southern dialects, will be referred to collectively as Southern Selkups.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 171 - 179
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Copyright © 2001 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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