Yukaghirn.adj.

1842 C. 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.

1879 C. H. Eden Frozen Asia ix. 208 The head-quarters of the Yukagires is on the River Anyui.

1898 J. Y. Simpson Side-lights on Siberia i. 12 Of the sub-Arctic races that inhabit the north-east of Siberia, it is sufficient to recall the names of the..Tchuktchi,..the wild Koryaks..and Yukaghirs, all differing in speech and appearance, but still related.

1906 Daily 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.

1964 tr. M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov Peoples of Siberia 789 The name ‘Yukagir’ was borrowed by the Russians from the Yakuts, but its origin is probably Tungusic.

1981 M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. xiv. 213 He was more Siberian than any of us... The Borodins..lived with the Yukagir, the reindeer herders.

1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 149 The Hyperborean speeches of Asia, some of which may or may not form a family, include..Yukaghir.

1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. ii. 3 Yukagir (Odul), the mother-tongue of fewer than 500 persons in Northern Yakutia.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 154 There are isolated languages spoken by diminutive populations. These are Gilyak..and, with a thousand speakers..or less..Yukagir.

1983 Word 34 217 The focus system of Yukagir, and case and negation in Uralic are treated in syntax sections.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 411 The so-called Hyperborean or Paleo-Asiatic languages..comprise the Yukaghir, Chukche, and Koryak, spoken in the northeastern corner of Siberia.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 35 Sad love-story of a Yukaghir girl.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 154 Yukagir (Yukagir National Area).