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Selkup language is the language of the Selkups belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. It is spoken by some 1570 people (1994 est.) in the region between the Ob and Yenisei Rivers (in Siberia). The language name Selkup comes from the Russian cелькупский язык (selkupsky yazyk) based on the native name used in the Taz dialect шӧльӄумыт әты šöľqumyt әty lit. forest-man language.

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