The Lord’s Prayer in Ket: A linguistic analysis

The present article deals with the Lord's Prayer translated into Ket, a small Siberian language on the verge of extinction. This is the first Ket translation of the prayer ever made and it has never been published before. The translation is presented in the official Cyrillic-based orthography. The article analyses the syntactic structure of the translated prayer, its vocabulary and deviations from the original text. The translation demonstrates the lack of many concepts related to the Christian religion in Ket, as well as a considerable degree of Russian interference, both syntactic and lexical.