Southern Yukaghir language
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The Southern, Kolyma or Forest Yukaghir language is one of two extant Yukaghir languages.
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Southern Yukaghir | |
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Forest Yukaghir, Kolyma Yukaghir | |
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Native to | Russia |
Region | Yakutia and Magadan Oblast |
Ethnicity | 1,800 Yukaghir (2020 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 50 (2003)[2] ca. 10 active (2010)[3] |
Yukaghir
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yux |
Glottolog | sout2750 |
ELP | Forest Yukagir |
Glottopedia | Kolyma-Jukagirisch [4] |
Pre-contact distribution of Southern Yukaghir (purple) and other Yukaghir languages | |
Forest Yukagir is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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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.[3]