a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.
the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.
From Russian, from Ket: Ket, “man, human being”
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A 10th suspect was accused of sending them to Preah Ket Mealea Hospital in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, for kidney transplant surgery.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2023
He held a placard with the slogan "Shal Ket" which means "old man out" - a reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, Kazakhstan's paramount leader since Soviet times.
From Reuters • Jan. 6, 2022
On Dec. 6, the day after Caras said she was fired, she said the company’s human resources representative, Ket Raxajak, called her and asked if she was planning to come to work.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2018
The only surviving language, Ket, has fewer than 200 living speakers.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2014
The note of social equality is struck by Ket throughout the rising.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Clayton, Joseph
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