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	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Ket inhabit the Yenisey Basin (Sym, Kureika, Yeloguy, Podkamenaya Tunguska) in East Siberia.
		Prestige was attached to the Russian language because it was the language for education and of culture and administration.
		Ket tradition has it that their ancestors were driven northwards by the "mountain people" and that they had to cross ranges of mountains before they came to Siberia.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/kets.shtml (1542 words)

	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: The Ket
		This language, in turn, may have been related to such far-flung languages as Basque in Spain, Burushaski in northern India, the native languages of the Caucusus, as well as Tibetan and Chinese.
		Ket buried their dead in the earth, along with personal possessions, which were broken up before being put in the tomb; sometimes dogs were also killed and placed with the deceased.
		There is increased intermarriage with Russians, and the survival of the unique Ket language as a medium of everyday communication beyond the next two generations is in doubt.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/ket.htm (1531 words)

	Ket: General overview
		The main areas of the Kets' dwelling are the Turukhansk district of the Krasnoyarsk region (574 or 53 % of all the Kets of Russia), and the Baikit district of the Evenki Autonomous Area, that is also situated in the Krasnoyarsk territory (178).
		The Kets live in the middle flow of the Enisei and its tributaries from the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in the South to the Kureyka river in the North in the settlements Vorogovo, Bor, Sulomai, Sumarokovo, Bakhta, Verkhne-Imbatsk, Kellog, Vereshagino, Baklanikha, Goroshikha, Surgutikha, Pakulikha, Turukhansk, Farkovo, Serkovo, Maduyka.
		The principle of unification of the Ket orthography is phonemic.
	www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp /Russia/Ket/Ket1.html (780 words)

	Ket language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language is threatened with extinction—the number of ethnic Kets that are native speakers of the language has dropped from 1,225 in 1926 to 537 in 1989.
		During the 19th century, the Kets were mistaken for a tribe of the Finno-Ugric Khats.
		Edward Vajda's (2004) monograph Ket, based on the author's original fieldwork in Siberia, is the first modern scholarly grammar of the Ket language in English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ket_language (324 words)

	Ket
		Ket is the Baklunish frontier land, the edge between the culture of the old Baklunish empire and that of the Flanaess at large.
		Ket is a major center of commerce, trading with many of the nations surrounding it, including the Baklunish states and neighboring eastern lands such as Bissel, Veluna, and Perrenland.
		Ket, as has been noted, is very strongly mercantile, shown by the fact that a large proportion of its populace lives in the cities.
	members.tripod.com /~ashtarx/ket.htm (1727 words)

	Cambridge ESOL - Exams (KET)
		KET is the first level Cambridge ESOL exam, at level A2 of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages,.
		KET recognises the ability to cope with everyday written and spoken communications at a basic level.
		KET Information for Candidates, a brief introduction to the exam written specially for candidates, is now available from the KET Downloads page.
	www.cambridgeesol.org /exams/ket.htm (715 words)

	Center for the Study of the First Americans
		The only currently existing member of the Yeniseian family of languages, Ket is spoken by about 550 people (out of a total population of 1,100) who live along the Yenisei River in central Siberia.
		The four-branch Na-Dene language family is made up of the three single languages--Haida, Tlingit, and Eyak--which are spoken along the coastline of western Canada and southern Alaska, and the Athabaskan group of languages.
		These Athabaskan languages are found in interior Alaska and western Canada as well as certain parts of the Pacific coast of Oregon and California and in the American Southwest (Navajo, Apache).
	www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=6 (1119 words)

	Professor DULSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All these languages have no writing and they refer to the so-called disappearing languages therefore everything that is fixed and collected is and will be of great value.
		Ket refers to such a type of languages in which the building up of verbal forms was not clear up till recent time.
		Ket having preserved the most ancient structure in the conjugation system gave the key to the explanation of the conjugation system in such languages as Finno-Ugric, Uralo-Altaic, and Indoeuropean, which was based on pronouns.
	www.osi.hu /ipf/fellows/Filtchenko/professor_andrei_petrovitch_duls.htm (1684 words)

	Main Suite Exams - British Council Armenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		KET enables candidates to demonstrate a level of English that is useful when travelling in English speaking countries.
		KET is part of the Main Suite of Cambridge English examinations, which is closely linked to the Council of Europe's Common European Framework for modern languages (CEF).
		Although the level of language skills required is not as high as for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, CAE recognises the ability to communicate with confidence in English and deal with most aspects of everyday life.
	www.britishcouncil.org /ca/armenia-exams-esol-mainsuit.htm (3246 words)

	Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For KET's German language courses we further require that the phone in the classroom be a speakerphone for use in oral tutoring.
		In addition, KET tracks your progress in the course through your position within the agendas, so please keep your agenda displaying the lesson on which you are currently working, to permit us to better serve your classroom.
		KET makes available for students and their instructors a yearbook of Distance Learning schools and participating students and facilitators.
	www.dl.ket.org /latinlit/faq/info/faq.htm (4723 words)

	Obscure language links Asians and Native Americans - November 8, 1998
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A few words in one of the planet's most obscure languages support the theory that Native Americans left Asia in several separate migrations, a linguist said in an article to be released Monday.
		Ket is a member of the Yeniseian family of languages.
		For instance, English is an Indo-European language, one of a family of languages that ranges from Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, to German and French.
	www.lds-mormon.com /science_languages_reut.shtml (478 words)

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		The Gamyar originally had a writing system of their own, but there are very few examples of it left, as the Soviets promptly sent linguists to study the language, and replaced the native writing system with the Cyrillic script still in use today.
		The Gamyar language was given official literary status in 1946.
		Along with grammars for the Ket and Yukagir languages, the task of compiling a chrestomathy of the Gamyar language was given to the Alma-Ata State University in the Kazakh SSR.
	members.tripod.com /~tuonela/english/gamyar.html (1558 words)

	Ket: Statistics
		In the published data of this census all information on the Ket language is given solely for the Kets.
		Concerning Ket as mother tongue outside the Ket ethnic group there are some Selkups living among Kets who claim Ket to be their mother tongue and who really speak Ket.
		Samples of the Ket folklore were first published in the 1930-ies, since then some quite representstive collections of Ket tales appeared.
	www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp /Russia/Ket/Ket4.html (749 words)

	language families of the world
		Languages include Hindi and Urdu (400 million), Bengali (200 million), Spanish (300 million), Portuguese (200 million), French (100 million), German (100 million), Russian (300 million), and English (400 million) in Europe and the Americas.
		There are three language isolates represented on this map, unrelated to any of the language families: Basque thrives between France and Spain.
		The Kartvelian languages are considered by many linguists to be a separate family, possibly related to Indo-European.
	webspace.ship.edu /cgboer/languagefamilies.html (835 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		"These tears meant how much their ancestral language means to them, and this in turn shows that these tears are the very reason why we should be engaged in the activities to combat the crisis of language endangerment," he said.
		This is the situation facing Ket, a language spoken in the Russian Federation along the Yenisei river in the Krasnoyarsk region.
		The preservation of smaller languages is a problem the European Union is continuing to grapple with, and the problem will intensify next year when the EU expands to take on 10 mostly Eastern European new members.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/08/15082003160729.asp (872 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Of these only 500 still speak their language, and most of these are over 40 years of age.
		The Ket word for breast, "tuhguh", is similar to "t'uga" in Koyukon, a Na-Dene language from the Yukon and Alaska.
		They beleive that all languages sprang from one tongue spoken by early humans, and that with enough sifting and comparing, we'll one day be able to reconstruct this mother of all languages.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/11/09/53.asp (762 words)

	Study enhances theory linking America, Siberia
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) A few words in one of the planet's most obscure languages may help support the theory that Native Americans left Asia in several separate migrations, a linguist said in an article released Monday.
		Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he gives examples of 36 words that are very similar in the two language families, including the words for birch bark, children and rabbit.
		In Ket the word is pronounced something like "ch'ee" - a sound hard to transliterate into English.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news88.htm (403 words)

	KET Enterprise \| English as a Second Language \| Crossroads Café (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		KET is delighted to offer the nationally acclaimed Crossroads Café.
		The series is set in a city café where characters discuss the daily challenges of living in a new country.
		To help meet today’s increasing need for materials in the teaching of English as a second language, KET is delighted to offer the nationally acclaimed video series Crossroads Café from Intelecom.
	www.ket.org /enterprise/esl/crossroads.htm (641 words)

	Where Did Nadene And Kets Came From - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		The Ket are the sole survivors of an ancient group
		language, dissappeared as a distinct ethnic entity by
		Siberia, the Selkup language of the Tomsk region, the
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5961 (2136 words)

	Longman Exams: KET/PET
		Students' Activities - up-to-date language relevant to the exams.
		KET Info - information on the major international examinations from around the world.
		PET Info - information on the major international examinations from around the world.
	www.longman.com /exams/ket-pet/index.html (76 words)

	2.5 thousand words included into new audio Evenk and Ket dictionary / Krasnoyarsk News
		The recording of Evenk language with use of modern digital audio and video recording equipment was held for the first time.
		Sociolinguistic research of the citizens of Surind Village was held as a preliminary stage in order to reveal the peculiarities of the language situation in the village.
		And a video film 'Language as Recollection (Kets of Sulomay)' shot by scientists is kept in Baykit District administration of Evenkia Autonomous District.
	english.newslab.ru /news/173519 (341 words)

	University Foundation Course Examination Diploma. English Language School Test Examination Diploma Course. MBA. IELTS. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All military examinations at BBSI are assessed by external examiners from the Ministry or Defence Language Examination Board (MODLEB).
		The University is the contract partner for designing and delivering language examinations at STANAG levels SLP1 to SLP4.
		It has managed the service for nearly 10 years and has capitalised on the experience with foreign language testing to design and deliver a suite of monolingual English examinations.
	www.bbsi.co.uk /index.asp?p=9 (831 words)

	Key English Test (KET) - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Three books of practice tests are available for the updated KET exam.
		Four authentic KET past papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
		Objective KET is a new course offering students complete preparation for the Cambridge Key English Test (KET) examination.
	www.cambridge.org /elt/catalogue/exams/ket (103 words)

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		I have also studies about 30 other languages from genetically diverse families (not listed above) and am familiar enough with their basic linguistic data to use informed examples in my classes and in general research dealing with typological issues.
		Morfologicheskij slovar’ ketskogo glagola na osnove juzhnoketskogo dialekta [Morphological dictionary of the Ket verb, southern dialect] (co-authored with Marina Zinn), Tomsk: TGPU, 2004.
		“K tipologii glagola v ketskom jazyke [Typology of the Ket verb],” Sravnitel'no-istoricheskie i tipologicheskie issledovanija jazyka i kul'tury: problemy i perspektivy I: 92-100.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/cv.htm (4689 words)

	KET - English language qualifications - Exams – British Council – Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		KET - English language qualifications - Exams – British Council – Lebanon
		KET - Key English Test is an elementary exam which recognises your ability to cope with everyday written and spoken communications at a basic level.
		You can register for a General English language course at our Teaching Centre.
	www.britishcouncil.org /az/lebanon-exams-qualifications-ket.htm (194 words)

	Kotorova E.G. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Education program included: Pedagogics and Psychology; Oral and Written Practice of German, English and French; General Linguistics, Theoretical Courses of German Grammar, Phonetics and Lexicology, History of German Language, etc. During the education time I took part in field work collecting materials on Ket language - one of the Siberian aboriginal languages.
		Responsibilities: lectures on General Linguistics, Lexicology of German, Comparative Typology of Russian, German, English and other languages, research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics, Lexicology, Typology and General Linguistics, tutoring students in their research work.
		Responsibilities: lectures on Lexicology of German, Comparative Typology of Russian, German English and other languages, Intensive Methods of teaching foreign languages; research work in the field of Contrastive Semantics on the basis of the languages of the similar and different types.
	www.osi.hu /ipf/fellows/Filtchenko/kotorova.htm (725 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ket
		Under 10% of the ethnic group speaks Ket.
		No other extant related languages: the Arin, Assan, and Kott peoples became extinct in the 19th century.
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ket (96 words)

	LINGUIST List 17.1521: Language Description, Ket: Vajda
		Ket is the only surviving member of the formerly widespread Yeniseic family
		Ket is spoken today by a few hundred of the 1,200 Ket people, mainly in
		Southern Ket (the dialect with the most speakers), and briefly discusses
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/17/17-1521.html (281 words)

	Amazon.com: Objective KET Set of 2 Audio CDs: Books: Annette Capel,Wendy Sharp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Objective KET offers students complete preparation for the Cambridge Key English Test.
		The course combines solid language development with systematic and thorough exam preparation and practice.
		Regular revision and recycling of language is provided by the revision units and the Teacher's Book also contains photocopiable tests and activities, as well as a full answer key, recording scripts and helpful lesson notes.
	www.amazon.com /Objective-KET-Set-Audio-CDs/dp/0521541522 (589 words)

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