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Language name Kolyma
Yukaghir
Language name Koiari kɔi�ɑ�ri
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Autonym (if known and different)
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Uralic Isolate
Language family Trans-New-
Guinea
Spoken in Yakutia Republic (Russia)
Spoken in Papua New Guinea
Approximate number of speakers 50
Approximate number of speakers 2k
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system Roman
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress weight-based, tending to word-final
Stress variable but with a word-initial bias
Contains following rare uvular
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 6�length
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone none
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony front–back, some rounding
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types (prefixation); (reduplication); suffixation
Morphology agglutinative stem-based verbs
and word-based
nouns
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular syntactic phenomena morphological aspect; nominative / accusative marking
Particular formation types partial prefixed and full reduplication; suffix
Syntax
Word order SOV AN (NA) postpositions
PossN
Points of interest
Particular syntactic phenomena absolutive / ergative marking; nominative / accusative
marking; morphological aspect; noun classes; verb classes
Sources Maslova (2003)
Points of interest verbs inflect for tense/aspect etc. only when
sentence-final, not when sentence-medial; no /p/
in native words, but /b/
Sources Dutton (1996)