By Elena Maslova
This ebook offers the 1st targeted description of Kolyma Yukaghir, an endangered language spoken by means of approximately 50 humans within the northeast of Asiatic Russia. It offers an outline of all significant parts of Yukaghir grammar, phonology, morphology and syntax. additionally it is a few annotated pattern texts and a Yukaghir-English vocabulary.
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