Yukaghir
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Yukaghirs,
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Yukaghir
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a member of an Indigenous people of the Kolyma river basin of northeastern Siberia.
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the Paleosiberian language of the Yukaghir.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Yukaghir
First recorded in 1840–45; from Russian yukagír, probably of Evenki origin
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Mr. Shadrin, the Yukaghir community leader, described the members of his Indigenous group — scattered in small villages across the vast region — as overwhelmingly supportive of the Kremlin.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
The Yukaghir were not an exotic tribe living in utter isolation.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2016
They would make contact with a mysterious group of people called the Yukaghir, who supposedly lived on nothing but elk and moose.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2016
An old man, covered in scars from hunting bears in his youth, led them to a Yukaghir village.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2016
Spreading northward and westward from the middle Asiatic plains, this great wave has produced the nomadic tribes of Siberia, like the Chukchi, the Buryats, and the Yukaghir.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward
The total population of the Yukaghirs numbers about 1,600, he said, including just 400 men between 18 and 45.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Among the Yukaghirs, he said, he already knew of seven men who had been called up, and he expected the number to rise as hunters and herders return to their villages and receive summonses.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Dr. Willerslev spent much of the next four years in Siberia, hunting moose, traveling across empty tundra and meeting the Yukaghirs and other people of the region.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2016
It was on their third journey through Siberia, in 1993, that the Willerslev brothers finally found the Yukaghirs.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2016
None of the other Tungusic or north-east Siberian peoples possess any writing system except the Yukaghirs of the Yasachnaya affluent of the Kolymariver, who were visited in 1892 by the Russian traveller, S. Shargorodsky.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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