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| Yukaghir | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Russian Far East |
| Genetic classification: |
Yukaghir |
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The Yukaghir languages (also Yukagir, Jukagir) are a family of related languages spoken in the Russian Far East by the Yukaghir, an indigenous people in Eastern Siberia, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. The entire family is regarded as moribund[1], with a total of fewer than 200 speakers reported in the 1989 Russian census.
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Classification
The relationship with other language families is mostly unknown, although it has been suggested that it is related to the Uralic languages, see Uralic-Yukaghir languages.
Members
The only two extant members are:
- Northern Yukaghir (ykg; "Tundra Yukaghir", also known as Odul, Tundra, Tundre): 30 to 150 speakers as of 1989. Last spoken in the tundra belt extending between the lower Indigirka to the lower Kolyma basin (). Formerly spoken in a much wider area extending to the Lena basin in the west.
- Southern Yukaghir (yux; "Forest Yukaghir", also known as Kolym, Kolyma, Odul): 10 to 50 speakers as of 1989. Last spoken in the forest zone near the sources of the Kolyma, divided between the Sakha Republic and the Magadan Oblast (around ), previously in the wider area of the upper Kolyma region.
See also
Further reading
- Vakhtin, N. B. 1991. The Yukagir language in sociolinguistic perspective. Steszew, Poland: International Institute of Ethnolinguistic and Oriental Studies.
- Krejnovich, Eruhim A., Jukagirskij jazyk. Moscow / Leningrad: Nauka (1958).
- Maslova, Elena, A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir, Mouton Grammar Library, 27 (2003).
- Maslova, Elena, Tundra Yukaghir, LINCOM Europa. Languages of the World/Materials 372 (2003).
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