Siberian cousins of Native Americans: The Ket

Shawn (YouTube), 11/2/23; Xochitl, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Men, women, and children of the Yenisei-Ostiaks - Native Siberians, Ket people (wiki)

The Siberian cousins of Native Americans: The Ket People

(imshawn getoffmylawn) Nov. 2, 2023: Navajo is an odd language, used by the US military for a unit of "Code Talkers" because it could not be cracked by opponents listening in on conversations. But it may not be the language-isolate it has always been thought to be. It seems to be related to Ket, a Native Siberian language.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 01:12 - Where do the Kets live?
• 03:18 - Chums and shamans
• 05:44 - 1580s-1850s: A Swedish army captain, a German scientist, and a Finnish linguist
• 10:11 - 1920s-1940s: Collectivization and boarding schools
• 16:37 - 1980s-2000s: Mini-resurgence
• 17:59 - Statistics and status today + introduction to Ket language
• 22:53 - Ket number system
• 26:15 - Phonology
• 27:41 - Morphology: classes, cases and the Ket verb + examples
• 35:38 - Dené-Yeniseian [Navajo-Ket] Hypothesis: family and DNA
• 42:12 - Extra #1: The Last Ket Poet
• 43:24 - Extra #2: Japanese and mushrooms
• 45:57 - Conclusion
• 46:59 - Host Shawn reads a poem in Ket

BIBLIOGRAPHY: both languages

- GOAT SOURCE - Website Archive on everything to do with Selkup, Ket, and Evenki: http://siberian-lang.srcc.msu.ru/en/a...

- YouTube channel archive of native speakers of Selkup, Ket, and Evenki: @siberian-lang

ACADEMIC SOURCES

• - English: Ket Language (Alexandra A. Sitnikova, Journal of Siberian Federal University)
• - The role of position class in Ket verb morphophonology (Edward J. Vajda, Tandfonline)
• - The Ket language: from descriptive linguistics to interdisciplinary research (Elena A. Kryukova, Tomsk Journal LING & ANTROPO 2013)
• - Typology of the Ket finite verb (Edward Vajda, Western Washington University)
• - A descriptive grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) (STEFAN GEORG, University of Bonn)
• - Historiography of Ket Language (Kistova & Pimenova, Siberian Federal University)
• - Siberian Landscapes in Ket Traditional Culture (Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington & Leipzig)

Русский: - Кетский Язык: современный социолингвистический статус и причины, приведшие к нему (на материале полевых исследований) (Юлия И. Козиорова, Институт языкознания РАН, 2013) - Хакасско-Кетские Лексические параллели. (Aikakauskirja Journal de la societe Finno-Ougrienne, 1992) - Этнореальность в Фотообъективе, Кеты Енисея (Окстябрьская, Шубская, Рудаков) - Традиционная Культовая Культура Кетов (Викторовна, МКУ ДО Аист)

VIDEOS

• English: - Ket Language Structure (Edward Vajda) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFZs... - Language Connection Between Asia and the Americas?
• – The Dené-Yeniseian Language Family Explained (Agma Schwa) • Language Connection Between Asia and ...
• - Ket Shamanism (The Brofessor) • Ket Shamanism
• - Edward Vajda - Tlingit and Dené-Yeniseian Hypothesis (Sealaska Heritage Institute) • Edward Vajda
• - Tlingit and the Dene-Y... Русский:
• - Юлия Галямина
• - Кеты и кетский язык (MAFUN Academy) • Юлия Галямина
• - Кеты и кетский язык
• - Кеты. Фильм Дениса Жемчугова • Кеты. Фильм Дениса Жемчугова
• - Счастливые Люди (Happy People documentary) • Счастливые люди | Енисей | Весна (сер... Ket:
• - Kotusov singing • Алла Пугачева - Lady talking about her grandparents, used in video • В Бахте
• - Ket Language example with subtitles and translation (ILoveLanguages) • Ket language, people, and culture

WEBSITES/OTHER

English: - “A Bit Lost” in the Siberian Ket Language (Chris Haughton) https://blog.chrishaughton.com/a-bit-...

- The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples (Edward Vajda) https://web.archive.org/web/201904062...

Русский (worth checking out even if one does not speak Russian):

- Вернер Г.К., Николаева Г.X. Букварь для 1 класса кетских школ https://www.twirpx.com/file/2375471/

- Каргер Нестор Константинович, биография https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/person/28...

- Песни и фольклор на Кетском (50 pages of songs and poem in Ket) https://web.archive.org/web/201907271...

- 1934: Языки и письменность народов севера, Крейнович и Алкор (The Languages and Literature of teh Peoples of the north, Kreinovitch & Palkor)

- Scan https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/817544

- [Tons of photos of dolls] Алэл

- кетская кукла, хранительница домашнего счета (Двурченская) https://babiki.ru/blog/narodnaya-kukl...

- Последний бард последнего народа

- Котусов (Юлия Галямина) https://www.trv-science.ru/2019/09/po...

- Встреча с писателем Михаилом Тарковским https://www.asu.ru/news/8744/

- Счастливые Люди (Часть 1) • Счастливые люди | Енисей | Весна (сер...

- Poem read in the end of the video (Cyrillic): https://web.archive.org/web/201907271...

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