Kettishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Kettish

1. Synonym of Ket (“the Yeniseian language of the Ket people”).
   • 1962, Gerard Clauson, “Turk, Mongol, Tungus”, in Asia Major, volume VIII, Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica., page 110:

     Indeed it should be added that recent research has shown that a few little known languages—Kettish, the extinct Kottish, and two or more—which were spoken on the upper Yenisei River in the immediate vicinity of Finno-Ugrian languages and were originally supposed to belong to that family, are in fact not related to it, or apparently any other language, and form a little family of their own.

   • 1983, E[dwin] G[eorge] Pulleyblank, “The Hsiung-nu”, in David N. Keightley, editor, The Origins of Chinese Civilization, Germany: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 451:

     On the other hand, as Ligeti (1950) was the first to point out, there is a good possibility that they may have spoken a language belonging to the Palaeo-Siberian family, the only surviving member of which is Kettish, also known as Yenissei-Ostyak.

   • 1984, Rafe De Crespigny, Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire‎, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 176:

     His tenative suggestion is that the Xiongnu language belonged to the Paleo-Siberian family, now represented only by Kettish, or Yenissei-Ostyak.