176 pp. April 2007
cloth, ISBN 978-1-901903-58-4, $175.00
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A Descriptive Grammar of Ket: Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, and Morphology
by Stefan Georg
Languages of Asia, No. 1
Distributed for Global Oriental
Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name, Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects.
Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, all of which are completely extinct, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives.
This Grammar of Ket constitutes the first book of its kind in English and is structured as follows: Introduction; The Kets and their Language; Phonology; Morphology; and References. For sale only in the U.S, its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
Stefan Georg studied comparative linguistics and several Asian languages at the University of Bonn, where he earned his PhD in Central Asian Linguistics, Indo-European and Manchuristics. He currently works as a project manager in the translation industry.
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