| 21. | Of these cognates, 27 are common to Indo-European, Uralic, and Yukaghir.
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| 22. | When Yukaghir alone is cited, it indicates the Tundra and Kolyma dialects have the same form.
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| 23. | It is currently widely accepted that the similarities between Uralic and Yukaghir languages are due to ancient contacts.
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| 24. | The Yukaghir negative verb is unlikely to be borrowed from Uralic, because morphological formations are rarely borrowed.
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| 25. | Yet no evidence for the Uralic / Yukaghir negative verb formation is found in the Indo-European languages.
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| 26. | Greenberg enumerates eight branches of Eurasiatic, as follows : Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo Aleut, Uralic Yukaghir.
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| 27. | However, the impressive figure is the 44 Uralic / Yukaghir cognates versus the 35 Indo-European / Yukaghir ones.
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| 28. | However, the impressive figure is the 44 Uralic / Yukaghir cognates versus the 35 Indo-European / Yukaghir ones.
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| 29. | By the time of the first encounter with Russians, Yukaghir were divided into twelve tribes with around 9, 000 people.
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| 30. | Greenberg ( 2002 ) lists 115 lexical cognates for Uralic and Indo-European versus 44 lexical cognates for Uralic and Yukaghir.
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