Uralic–Yukaghir languages

Uralic–Yukaghir
Uralo–Yukaghir
(hypothetical)
Geographic
distribution
Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Siberia
Linguistic classificationProposed language family
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The Uralic and Yukaghir languages

Uralic–Yukaghir, also known as Uralo-Yukaghir, is a somewhat controversial proposed language family composed of Uralic and Yukaghir.

Uralic is a large and diverse family of languages spoken in northern and eastern Europe and northwestern Siberia. Among the better-known Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian.

Yukaghir is a small family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia. It formerly extended over a much wider area (Collinder 1965:30) and it consists of two surviving languages, Tundra Yukaghir and Kolyma Yukaghir.

Proponents of the Uralo-Siberian proposal include Uralo-Yukaghir as one of its two branches, alongside the Siberian languages (sometimes Nivkh, (formerly) Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut).