🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

켓인

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ket-in

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ket/kɛt/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"켓인은 시베리아의 원주민 집단입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of an indigenous Siberian people living in the Yenisei River basin.

    "The Ket are traditionally known for their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and reindeer herding."
  2. 2

    The Yeniseian language spoken by the Ket people, notable for being a linguistic isolate.

    "Linguists continue to study Ket to understand its unique tonal system and grammatical structure."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Yeniseian language family, 'Ket' is the name of an indigenous Siberian people and their traditional language. The term historically emerged in anthropological and linguistic literature during the 18th and 19th centuries as explorers documented the nomadic tribes along the Yenisei River.

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