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The Yukaghir languages ( / ˈjuːkəɡɪər / YOO-kə-geer or / juːkəˈɡɪər / yoo-kə-GEER; also Yukagir, Jukagir) are a small family of two closely related languages— Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir —spoken by the Yukaghir in the Russian Far East living in the basin of the Kolyma River. At the 2002 Russian census, both Yukaghir languages ...
- Uralic–Yukaghir languages
The Uralic and Yukaghir languages. Uralic–Yukaghir, also...
- Tundra Yukaghir language
The Tundra Yukaghir language (also known as Northern...
- Uralic–Yukaghir languages
Yukaghir was traditionally grouped in the catchall category of Paleo-Siberian languages with a number of languages that are not genetically related or structurally similar. More recently, however, Yukaghir has been considered a distant relative of the Uralic language family. Yukaghir and two extinct languages or dialects, Omok and Chuvan (or ...
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Paleo-Siberian. Yukaghir, remnant of an ancient human population of the tundra and taiga zones of Arctic Siberia east of the Lena River in Russia, an area with one of the most severe climates in the inhabited world. Brought close to extinction by privation, encroachment, and diseases introduced by other groups, they numbered some 1,100 in the ...
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Tundra Yukaghir is also known as Northern Yukaghir, Jukagir, Tundra, Tundre, Wadul, Yukaghir or Yukagir. It is related to Southern Yukaghir, but the two languages are not mutually intelligible. A way to write Yukaghir languages with the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 1980s by Gavril Kurilov. It was based on the Russian and Yakut ...
Tundra Yukaghir. Tundra Yukaghir (wadul) is a member of the Yukaghir language family, comprising Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir (odul). It is spoken in the tundra west of the Kolyma River. Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir are the only two remnants of what used to be one of the dominant languages/language families of north-eastern Siberia.
