Yukaghir

There are now two Yukaghir languages, Tundra (Northern) and Kolyma (Southern) Yukaghir, spoken in several small communities in the Yakut (Saha) Republic in the North-East of Russia. As of 1987, there were approximately 150 native speakers of Tundra Yukaghir, and less than 50 speakers of Kolyma Yukaghir. The genetic affiliation of Yukaghir is controversial: some linguists take these languages to be an isolated language group, others, a branch of the Yukaghir-Ural language family.

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Links

Online Documentation of Kolyma Yukaghir (by Irina Nikolaeva)

Reindeer People: maps and pictures

Yukaghir: a bibliographical guide

Humanistic texts: English translations of Yukaghir songs

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Tundra Yukaghir version)

L'auravetl'an Indigenous Information Center, Yukagir

People

Markus Bergman

Language contacts, Ecolinguistics

Michael Fortescue

Language contacts

Elena Maslova

Grammar, Discourse-related phenomena
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Irina Nikolaeva

Phonology, Comparative studies

Joke Philipsen

Ethnography

Grammars

Krejnovich, Eruhim A.

1958. Jukagirskij jazyk. Moscow -- Leningrad: Nauka.

Texts

Jochelson, Woldemar

1898. Obrazcy materialov po izhucheniju jukagirskogo jazyka i fol'klora, sobrannyje v Jakutskoj ekspedicii. Izvestija Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk. , 8: 151-177.

1900. Materialy po izucheniju jukagirskogo jazyka i fol'klora. I. Sankt Petersburg. Imperatorskaja Akademija Nauk..

Maslova, Elena (ed.)

2001. Yukaghir Texts. Harrassowitz Verlag, Tunguso-Sibirica 7. A collection of 10 Tundra Yukaghir texts and 5 Kolyma Yukaghir texts, with morph-to-moprh translations, indices and vocabularies.

Nikolaeva, Irina (ed.)

1989. Fol'klor jukagirov Verxnej Kolymy. Vols. 1-2. Jakutsk: Jakutskij gosudarstvennyi Universitet.

1997. Yukaghir texts. Szombathely: Specimina Sibirica.

1999. Chrestomathia Jucagirica. Budapest: ELTE.