Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Yukagir

SOURCE

L'Auravetl'an Foundation, NY

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Yukagir

Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

1,100

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Home Speakers: Russian Federation

BACKGROUND

Yukagir may be related to the Altaic or Uralic family. It has very few speakers out of an ethnic group of slightly over 1,000 people. There is a Northern (more widespread) and a Southern variety. Even and Russian are the literary languages. Most can speak Russian, Even and Yakut as second languages.