Also Known As:
Forest Yukagir, Southern Yukagir, южноюкагирский язык, Forest Yukaghir, Jukagirisch, Odul, Kolyma, Kolym, Southern Yukaghir, Одул, Одун ажуу
Dialects & Varieties
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<50
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
No results found.
Young adults
0
Older adults
0?
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
~400
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, with massive multilingualism
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
in the forest zone, on the sources of the Kolyma; administratively divided between the Yakut (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia) and Magadan Oblast of Russia; previously in a much wider area in the upper Kolyma region
Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
None
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
Attempts are currently being made to create a written standard (in Cyrillic script, with either Russian or Yakut-based orthographical principles) for both Tundra Yukagir and Forest Yukagir.
Recent Resources
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Yukagir
Website for the documentation of Kolyma Yukaghir by Irina Nikolaeva.