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Selkup

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Noun1.Selkup - one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia
Siberia - a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters
Russian - a native or inhabitant of Russia
2.Selkup - the Uralic language spoken by the Ostyak-Samoyed
Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia


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] castrated-reindeer-NomSg (pro castrated-reindeer-AccSg) harness-Aor3Sg 'he harnessed a castrated reindeer (to the sledge)' Nominative is particularly characteristic of the Forest Nenets direct object and of the Selkup Taz dialect direct object ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.
Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Mansi, Hanty, Selkup, and other languages were measured on the basis of functioning of certain consonantal groups in a large sample.
5) By contrast, all Samoyedic languages clearly have a category of unmarked object next to an indicative finite verb, and in three of these: (Tundra) Nenets, (6) Enets and Selkup this form expresses the definiteness or the focus function of the object.
 
 
 
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