Kolymajukagir language
| Kolymajukagir (одул) | ||
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Spoken in |
 Russia
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| speaker | 50 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
yux |
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The kolymajukagirische language (even Südjukagirisch ; self-description: odule ) is one of only two still spoken jukagirischen languages . Today it is only spoken fluently by around 50 mostly older Jukagirs in Northeast Siberia. Most of them live in the small village of Nelemnoye on the Yasachnaja in Verkhnekolymsky ulus in the east of the Republic of Yakutia .
Phonology
Vowels
| front | central | back | ||||
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| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| closed | i, iː (и, ии) | u, uː (у, уу) | ||||
| medium | ɛ, ɛː (э, ээ) | ɞ, ɞː (ө, өө) | ɔ, ɔː (о, оо) | |||
| open | a, aː (а, аа) | |||||
Consonants
| bilabial | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | uvular | glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | |
| Plosives | p (п) | t (т) | d (д) | k (к) | g (г) | q (х) | ʔ (-) | |||||||
| Fricatives | ʃ (ш) | ʒ (ж) | ʁ ¹ (ҕ) | |||||||||||
| Affricates | t͡ʃ (ч) | d͡ʒ (дж) | ||||||||||||
| Nasals | m (м) | n (н) | ɲ (нь) | ŋ (ҥ) | ||||||||||
| Lateral | l (л) | ʎ (ль) | ||||||||||||
| Vibrants | r (р) | |||||||||||||
| Half vowels | w (в) | j (й) | ||||||||||||
¹The voiced uvular fricative / ʁ / is realized after / ŋ / as a plosive [ɢ] .
Phonotactics
The syllable structure is CVC, so a maximum of one consonant can appear at the beginning and end of a word, but a maximum of two in the middle.
literature
- Elena Maslova: A grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017527-4 .
