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Europe and North Asia

Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.

Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
<150
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 5

A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.

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Transmission

Transmission 5

There are only a few elderly speakers.

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Speakers
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Elders
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Year information was gathered
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Location and Context
Countries
Siberia
Location Description

Spoken in the tundra zone, in a belt extending from the lower Indigirka in the west close to the lower Kolyma basin in the east, in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, now largely concentrated in the villages of Andryushkino and Kolymskoye in Lower Kolyma (Nizhnekolymskiy) County.

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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Yakut, Even, Chukchi.
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Nearly all
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Comments on writing systems:
Attempts are currently being made to create a written standard in Cyrillic script, with either Russian or Yakut-based orthographical principles, for both Tundra Yukagir and Forest Yukagir.

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