It is therefore not surprising that, at the present time ( 2009 ), the validity of the Uralic Yukaghir family is controversial.
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So, a new possibility arises that the Urheimat of Uralic languages ( and perhaps also Yukaghir languages ) may be Liao river region.
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The figures could also be skewed by the fact that the Indo-European and Uralic languages are much more heavily attested than the Yukaghir ones.
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A more decisive piece of evidence that Uralic and Yukaghir form a valid genetic node comes from the presence of similar negative verb formations in each.
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"' Chuvan "'( Chuvantsy ) is an extinct Yukaghir language of Siberia, part of a dialect continuum with the two surviving languages.
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It thus seems likely that the Uralic / Yukaghir negative verb goes back to a period of primitive Uralic Yukaghir unity, from which Indo-European was separate.
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It thus seems likely that the Uralic / Yukaghir negative verb goes back to a period of primitive Uralic Yukaghir unity, from which Indo-European was separate.
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Joseph Greenberg identifies Chukotko-Kamchatkan ( which he names Chukotian ) as a member of Yukaghir, sometimes classed as " Paleosiberian " languages, to the Eurasiatic family.
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The exhibition is called " Drawing Shadows to Stone, " a title that translates the name the Yukaghir, a Siberian people, gave the anthropologists'camera.
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It therefore appears that an explicit case for a Uralic Yukaghir language family, as opposed to a Uralic Yukaghir kinship at some unspecified higher level, has not been made.
