Selkup people
чумэлӷу́ла, тюйкула, шё̄шӄула, сӱ̄ссыӷӯла, шöйӄумыт | |
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Obdorsk, Ob river | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia
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The Selkup (
History
Selkups speak the Selkup language, which belongs to the Samoyedic languages of the Uralic language family.
The Selkups originated in the middle
In the 17th century, some of the Selkups relocated up north to live along the
During the Soviet period, the Selkups were forced to adopt a settled lifestyle and their traditional culture witnessed a severe decline. The Selkups have been facing cultural extinction and assimilation from Russian culture. They also suffer from racial discrimination, unemployment and alcoholism.[5]
According to a recent genetic study, subclade Q1a2a1-L54 was mainly found in Yeniseian (Ket) and Samoyedic (Enets and Selkup) speakers. Genetic evidence showed that Yeniseian and Samoyedic speakers had genetic affinities to northern
Population
According to the
There were 62 Selkups in Ukraine, only one of whom is a native speaker of the Selkup language (Ukrainian Census 2001).
The main Selkup settlements in Siberia are Krasnoselkup and Kargasok.
Culture
The Selkups traditionally engaged in hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding as subsistence. The Selkups also utilized dugout canoes to sail on rivers.[6]
In 1911-1912 and 1914, the expeditions of the Finnish linguist and ethnographer Kai Reinhold Donner (1888-1935) were engaged in studying the language, folklore, everyday culture and the traditional way of life of the Selkups.
Another famous Selkupologist was Eugene Helimski.
References
- ^ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)
- ^ PMID 28884289.
- ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- PMID 26865217.
- ^ Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.
Further reading
- Sobanski, Florian (March 2001). "The southern Selkups of Tomsk Province before and after 1991". S2CID 177457842.
External links
- Article on Selkups from the Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- A Selkup fisherman from Western Siberia