lang_description: "The genetically isolated Yukaghir language has been regarded as one of the Paleo-Asiatic languages. It has been hypothesized that the Yukaghir language is related to the Uralic languages. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire)",
classification: "Yukaghir",
dialect_varieties: "Omok (extinct)",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:5459,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "90",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "230-1100",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Data on speaker number (M. Krauss 1995). Data on ethnic population: 230 to 1,100 (M. Krauss 1995, 1989 census)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:5460,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "100",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:5465,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "<150",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "There are fewer than 150 speakers of Tundra Yukagir, including elderly people who have it as their first language and middle-aged people who are typically more fluent in Russian and Yakut.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:14467,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:5777,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "310",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "835",
date_of_info: "1979",
public_comment: "In 1979 37.5%% of the ethnic population of 835, were considered to be native speakers which is 310.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:24639,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:14231,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:102,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:18761,
code_id:3024,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "<50",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: "0",
young_adults: "0",
older_adults: "0?",
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "~700",
date_of_info: "1993",
public_comment: "mean age of youngest speakers: mainly from 60 years up",