However, hydronyms indicate a much wider area in the past, ranging from the Uda and Chuna rivers in the east to the Tom in the west.

[6] One of the earliest written records of Kott is in 1791, with the publication of Peter Simon Pallas's Сравнительный словарь всѣхъ языковъ и нарѣчій, по азбучному порядку расположенный, a comparative dictionary of various world languages and dialects.

[2] There also exists two books written by Heinrich Werner [ru; de] about the Kott language, namely Коттский язык (Kottskij jazyk), which includes a 110-page Russian-Kott glossary,[7] and Abriß der kottischen Grammatik.

[4][2] Kott is an agglutinative, polysynthetic language which typically uses SVO word order, but can vary depending on situation.

The dative, ablative and locative cases developed from possesed nouns, similarly to Ket and Yugh.