selTechnical information about ISO 639 language code sel
The table below provides technical details for the Selkup language, designated by the sel code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Selkup |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Northern SelkupCentral SelkupSouthern Selkup |
| Related languages | NenetsEnetsNganasanKamassian |
| Key facts | Member of the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language familySpoken by fewer than two thousand mainly elderly people and classified as severely endangeredWritten tradition began only in the 1930s with a Cyrillic-based alphabet (modern orthography revised in the 1990s)Shows agglutinative morphology with rich case marking and vowel harmonyDialectal divergence is strong enough that the northern and southern varieties are nearly mutually unintelligible. |
| Sample phrase | Сапā, нэка биӈли? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Selkup language, identified by the code sel, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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