Uralic-Yukaghir Languages

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uralic-Yukaghir is a proposed language family composed of Uralic and Yukaghir. It is also known as Uralo-Yukaghir. Uralic is a large and diverse family of languages spoken in northern and eastern Europe and northwestern Siberia. Among the best-known Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. Uralic is traditionally subdivided into two branches, Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic. Yukaghir is a small family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia. It formerly extended over a much wider area (Collinder 1965:30). It consists of two languages, Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir.