Professor Investigates Ket Language (fwd link)

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Professor Investigates Ket Language

Fri, July 9, 2010
Posted in Alaska News
USA

Video by Professor Edward Vajda: The first five minutes are subtitled with
no sound. But, at 5:10, there is a story in the Ket language.
Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage

A new book chronicles the language link between a remote village in northern
Siberia and the Dene or Athabascan family of languages in North America. The
Ket people, of the Yenisei River, have been studied by Professor Edward
Vajda, a linguistics expert from Western Washington University. Vajda says
there are about 30 languages in Siberia that are not related to Russian and
Ket is one of them. He says it is radically different than any other
language of north Asia.

Vayda says no one from North America had ever worked with the Ket language
before. He says Ket is the only surviving language of the Yeniseian family.
Other Native languages along the Yenisei River are extinct.

Access full article below:
http://aprn.org/2010/07/09/professor-investigates-ket-language/
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