Manuscripta Castreniana Ostiak-Samoiedica
Edited by Jarmo Alatalo
M.A. Castrén’s collections of the Selkup language from the years 1845–1846 is now published for the first time in their entirety, in the form of an electronic publication.
During his travels, Castrén attested all five of the Selkup dialects, in 13 different idioms, and wrote grammars for four of them. He also recorded four texts, from an idiom for which he did not make a separate grammar.
Although Castrén knew the language beforehand only from short word lists, he managed to describe its structure very completely. His material is of excellent quality, and constitutes till this day the base of our knowledge of the Selkup language, especially for the southernmost, earliest extinct, Čulym dialect.
Selkup dialects
Symbols used by Castrén
Phonology
Absolute declension
Case paradigms
- Case paradigms Narym
- Case paradigms Ob
- Case paradigms MO
- Case paradigms Čulym
- Case paradigms Ket
- Case paradigms NP
- Case paradigms Eloguj
- Case paradigms Baiha
- Case paradigms Taz
- Case paradigms Karasino
Possessive declension
Possessive paradigms
- Possessive paradigms Narym
- Possessive paradigms Ob
- Possessive paradigms MO
- Possessive paradigms Čulym
- Possessive paradigms Ket
- Possessive paradigms NP
- Possessive paradigms Eloguj
- Possessive paradigms Baiha
- Possessive paradigms Taz
- Possessive paradigms Karasino
Conjugation
Verbal paradigms
- Verbal paradigms Narym
- Verbal paradigms Ob
- Verbal paradigms MO
- Verbal paradigms Čulym
- Verbal paradigms Ket
- Verbal paradigms NP
- Verbal paradigms Eloguj
- Verbal paradigms Baiha
- Verbal paradigms Taz
- Verbal paradigms Karasino