Yukaghir
noun
a member of an Indigenous people of the Kolyma river basin of northeastern Siberia.
Yukaghirs
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pluralof Yukaghir.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
