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 Sigma KEE - SouthernYukaghirLanguage

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southern yukaghir language
The SouthernYukaghirLanguage is a YukaghirLanguage of Russia (Asia). SIL code: YUX. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: 10 to 50 speakers out of 130 in the ethnic group (1995 M. Krauss, 1989 census). Region: Yakutia and the Kamchatka Peninsula. Alternate names: YUKAGIR, JUKAGIR, ODUL, KOLYMA, KOLYM, SOUTHERN YUKAGIR. Comments: Not inherently intelligible with Northern Yukaghir. All can speak Russian as second language, especially those below 40. Those above 35 can speak Yakut, and those over 60 can speak Even. Russian is used as a literary language. All over 35 to 40 years old (1989). SOV, postpositions, genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives before noun heads, question word not initial or final, 2 prefixes, 6 suffixes, focus is preverbal, subjects and topics tend to be initial, affixes indicate case of noun phrases, person and number of subject is obligatory, split intransitivity: intransitive subjects encode as transitive when nonfocus, focus marked the same for intransitive subjects and direct objects, and only for those, otherwise rather accusative, resultative, reflexive, reciprocal, causative, comparative, CV, CVCCVV, nontonal. Pine and deciduous forest. Riverine. Swiden agriculturalists, heavy dependence on the support of the government. Christian, traditional religion.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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 languageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
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 spoken human languageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
 yukaghir languageA YukaghirLanguage is either of two languages found in the Russia (Asia) that form a family of languages apparently unrelated to others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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