Sel'kupy - Sel'kupy (English spelling)

Japanese: セリクープ族 - セリクープぞく（英語表記）Sel’kupy

A hunter-fisher people living in the left bank of the middle reaches of the Yenisei River in Western Siberia, Russian Federation. Formerly called Ostyako-Samoed. Population 3,600 (1989). The Serikhops were once based further south in the middle reaches of the Ob River, but after some of them moved to their current home in the 17th century, their home town of Serikhop became heavily Russified. Serikhop is the only surviving language representing the southern group of the Samoyed branch of the Uralic language family. Culturally, the Serikhops are closer to the Khanty and Ket peoples who also live in the inland river basin than to the Samoyed peoples of the northern group, and for this reason these three groups were once collectively called Ostyak.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

ロシア連邦，西シベリアのエニセイ川中流域左岸一帯に住む狩猟･漁労民。旧称はオスチャーク･サモエードOstyako‐samoed。人口3600(1989)。セリクープはかつてもっと南方のオビ川中流域に本拠地があったが，一部が17世紀に現住地へ移動したのち，本拠地のセリクープは著しくロシア化されてしまった。セリクープ語はウラル語族サモディ語派南方群を代表する唯一の現存語。文化的にはセリクープは北方群のサモエード諸族よりもむしろ，同じく内陸河川流域に住むハンティ族，ケート族のほうに近く，このためこれら3集団はかつてオスチャークと総称された。

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