Kettish

Proper noun

Kettish

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

   Synonyms:

   Ket