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The section on 'Uralic-Yukaghir' is very enlightening (p.65ff.), and I will add some of it (with references!) to the history section. (note that the book does not claim genetic relationship of Uralic and Yukaghir. Ruhlen talks about apparent 'taxonomical coordination', and mentions various suggestions.
Uralic-Yukaghir.png (406 × 226 piksel, ment ar restr : 37 Kio, seurt MIME : image/png) Istor ar restr Klikañ war un deiziad/eur da welet ar restr evel ma oa da neuze.
Livonian (extinct) South Estonian. The Balto-Finnic, or often simply Finnic, languages are a branch of Uralic languages. They are spoken in Northeastern Europe around the Baltic Sea, mainly in Finland, Estonia, and Northwestern Russia. The main two languages in the branch are Estonian and Finnish. [1] [2]
The Southern, Kolyma or Forest Yukaghir language is one of two extant Yukaghir languages . Last spoken in the forest zone near the sources of the Kolyma, divided between the Sakha Republic and the Magadan Oblast (around 65°N 153°E ), previously in the wider area of the upper Kolyma region. In 2010 it had about 10 active speakers.
Other languages, including Chuvantsy, spoken further inland and further east, are now extinct. Yukaghir is held by some to be related to the Uralic languages in the Uralic–Yukaghir family . The Yukaghirs (self-designation: одул odul , деткиль detkil ) are people in East Siberia , living in the basin of the Kolyma River .
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 ...
The Nganasans ( / əŋˈɡænəsæn / əng-GAN-ə-san; Nganasan: ӈәнә"са (нә") ŋənəhsa (nəh), ня (") ńæh) are a Uralic people of the Samoyedic branch native to the Taymyr Peninsula in north Siberia. In the Russian Federation, they are recognized as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North. They reside primarily in the ...
