Kettish

English Etymology From en Ket -ish. Proper noun en Ket the Yeniseian language of the Ket people. en Turk, Mongol, Tungus Asia Major VIII 1962 Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica. Gerard Clauson 110 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 fact not related to it, or apparently any other language, and form a little family of their own. en Edwin George Pulleyblank The Hsiung-nu The Origins of Chinese Civilization 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 University of California Press 451 https://www.google.com.tr/books/edition/The_Origins_of_Chinese_Civilization/g2PhEAAAQBAJ?hl=tr&gbpv=1&dq=kettish&pg=PA451&printsec=frontcover Germany David N. Keightley 9780520310797 en His tenative suggestion is that the Xiongnu language belonged to the Paleo-Siberian family, now represented only by Kettish, or Yenissei-Ostyak. 176 https://www.google.com.tr/books/edition/Northern_Frontier/CL5xAAAAMAAJ?hl=tr&gbpv=1&bsq=kettish Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire 1984 9780867844108 Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University Rafe De Crespigny en Languages