Ket language

• Paläosibirische languages Jenisseische languages

Ket is the only surviving of the jenisseischen languages. Ket is an endangered species: the language had in 1989 only 537 speakers.

Ket 1788 was first documented in the travel diary of PS Pallas. Matthias Alexander Castrén published in 1858 a first grammar and dictionary of the first chain. A monograph Edward Vajda from 2004, the first modern teaching grammar of Ket in English; he suspects a relationship between the Ket and Na - Dene languages, he also sees the sound system of the chain most closely related to the Vietnamese.

Ket has seven vowel and consonant phonemes 12 and five tones.