Asanas (people)

Asanas are a nomadic people who lived in southern Siberia along the Yenisei, related to the Yenisei Ostyaks, assimilated with other tribes and completely disappeared.

Assan (Asan) from the Ket-Asan family of Paleo-Asian (Paleosiberian) languages ^[1] . The Ket language represents the heritage that linguists build to the Yenisei language family . Native speakers of the Yenisei languages ​​(asanas, arins , Yarintsy , etc.) in the past settled in the upper Yenisei and its tributaries and were assimilated by neighboring peoples during the 18th-19th centuries.

The Ket language is the last living representative of the Yenisei language family. Other related languages ​​( Pumpumpol , Arin , Asan) disappeared in the XVIII-XIX centuries. along with their carriers.

The ancestors of the Kets supposedly lived on the territory of Southern Siberia along with other representatives of the so-called Yenisei-speaking peoples (Arins, Asanas, Yarins, Tints , Bakhtins , Kott , etc.). In the 1st millennium A.D. they entered into contact with the Turkic-Samoyed-Ugric-speaking population, as a result of which they were forced to migrate to the Yenisei North. In particular, the Cottas settled along the Kanu River (the right tributary of the Yenisei), Asanas - along the rivers Usolka and Ona (the left bank of the lower Angara), the arins - on the Yenisei in the Krasnoyarsk region, above them on the right bank of the Yenisei to the mouth of the Tuba River are the Yarintsy and Baykotovtsy.