COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF KET (WITH RUSSIAN, GERMAN AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION) (VOL. I–II, LINCOM GMBH, MÜNCHEN, 2015, 943 s. ED. BY E. KOTOROVA AND A. NEFEDOV)

Werner Н. K.

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Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenscgafren der Universität Bonn. Abteilung für Mongolistik und Tibetstudien. Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, Bonn, Germany, 53113. E-mail: henrich.werner@gmx.de

Publication of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket (with Russian, German and English translation) (vol. I–II, LINCOM gmbh, MÜNCHEN, 2015, 943 s. Ed. by E. Kotorova and A. Nefedov is an important event for the studies in Yeniseic languages. This edition is a significant achievement in Ket language scholarship, which allows to understand better the structure of this unusual languages and serves as a good basis for further studies of Ket by future generations of Ket language scholars. The significance of this achievement is hard to overestimate, it is of great interest not only for linguists. Kets, as many other Siberian indigenous languages, did not have literacy, and the dictionary bridges information gaps on lifestyle, traditional economy, spiritual and material culture, migrations and inter-ethnic contacts, as well as on the geographical environment of Kets of past and present.

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