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Yukaghir, n. (a.)|ˈjuːkəgɪə(r), juːkəˈgɪə(r)|
Also Yukaghire, Yukagir(e).
a. (A member of) a Mongoloid people of Arctic Siberia.
b. The Palæo-Siberian language (of unknown affiliation) of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1842C. H. Cottrell Recoll. Siberia iv. 104 The Yukaghires, settled on the banks of the river Anuiy, maintain themselves the whole year on the reindeer they kill in spring and autumn. 1879C. H. Eden Frozen Asia ix. 208 The head-quarters of the Yukagires is on the River Anyui. 1898[see Koryak]. 1906Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 7/5 The sole survivors of a group of ten Yukagirs, are charged with having eaten the man's nephew... After that the Yukagir, although he had caught a swan, continued to eat human flesh. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Natural Hist. Lang. 149 The Hyperborean speeches of Asia, some of which may or may not form a family, include..Yukaghir. 1932[see Chukchee, Chukchi n. and a.]. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 35 Sad love-story of a Yukaghir girl. 1951W. K. Matthews Languages U.S.S.R. ii. 3 Yukagir (Odul), the mother-tongue of fewer than 500 persons in Northern Yakutia. 1964tr. Levin & Potapov's Peoples of Siberia 789 The name ‘Yukagir’ was borrowed by the Russians from the Yakuts, but its origin is probably Tungusic. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 154 There are isolated languages spoken by diminutive populations. These are Gilyak..and, with a thousand speakers..or less..Yukagir (Yukagir National Area). 1981M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. xiv. 213 He was more Siberian than any of us... The Borodins..lived with the Yukagir, the reindeer herders. 1983Word XXXIV. 217 The focus system of Yukagir, and case and negation in Uralic are treated in syntax sections. |