History of the Yukaghir Languages

[@prusentums2407]

Love siberian stuff, so overlooked. Thank you for your content

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@Trolligi]

Surprising to see Yukaghir start so west. Maybe it is related to the Uralic languages after all

[@CostasMelas]

There is this theory about the Uralic-Yukaghir group

[@Trolligi]

@@CostasMelasyes, that is what I am referring to

[@MrNTF-vi2qc]

When I first clicked on the video I made that assumption immediately.

[@adnan_honest_jihadist5775]

they are related to uralic languages

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

The video is based on that assumption

[@slyninja4444]

It's interesting to see that much of the language's decline wasn't simply caused by the russians expanding east, but also the Yakuts expanding north (fleeing from the mongols).

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Yes😢

[@ЛексусФольксваген]

Not only Russians but Americans also had experience with expanding on west and natives. And this is okay, otherwise we would be less richer

[@polishhussarmapping258]

Also the Chukchi devastated them.

[@iroquoianmapper]

I never thought that the Yukagir languages ​​come from lower Yenisei, what theory did you base on? Great video, I hope to see your video about Languages of Siberia.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@africanmate8036]

very great addition to the siberian library of your videos, americas and siberia are the most interesting to me

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@king_halcyon]

Is it somewhat based off the notion that Uralic is perhaps related to Yukaghir? That theory seems quite legit.

[@CostasMelas]

This theory is mainly based on genetic studies. The Yukaghirs are genetically closer to the Samoyedic than to the nearby Chukotkan

[@villagerikanava1898]

There are also some uncanny similarities between the languages. Both groups languages are aggulanative (idk if I wrote that right lol), and both languages contain huge amounts of vocal ending words. Also there are a few shared words between yukaghir and Uralic languages.

[@ГригорийЕвгеньев-д9ч]

Выходит, что длительный период носители юкагирских языков жили по реке Лене. Но приходом предков якутов, их ареал сметился на восток и там сильно сократился.

[@ОльгаРоманова-б7х]

Скорей всего якуты их выдавили

[@Andriy-ym1pr]

​@@ОльгаРоманова-б7хИ эвенки ещё

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

Do one that shows all the language families of Siberia.

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Nice idea

[@batteries_sold_seperately]

It would be cool if you put some language families on the same map

[@cassiel5150]

History of Tengrism/ancient turkic religion next?

[@deathlydashi]

Why?

[@king_halcyon]

​@@deathlydashiwhy not?

[@Scythian_nomad]

There was no such religion, each tribe had its own religion And Tengri was worshiped by the Mongols

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

its sad they become smaller but its kinda funny that they switch places in which one is north and south lol

[@elidesportelli325]

And i love the historical research

[@elidesportelli325]

My future job

[@g.kech.10]

I was waiting for this video!

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

These northern Eurasian cultures are so forgotten. I feel bad that I don't research them.

[@limeliciousmapping4652]

Thank you for your interesting videos on language, I always really enjoy them^^

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@fastasaswhale]

It is sad to see all these languages are extinct or are severely endanger.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

One of the languages families..

[@elidesportelli325]

And i love the hisotry of the Asia

[@Big-man-Epik]

You should add populations. That would be really cool!

[@miniongamer06]

I have an idea for you (if you want): Jewish languages and dialects on the map (they belong to different families, but they all were spoken mainly by Jews and were developed in Jewish communities. Hebrew, Yiddish, Buchari, Ladino, Judeo Aramaic etc.) So what do you think?

[@user-sh3cf7kd6e]

Judeo-Malayalam, Judaeo-Papiamento, Krymchak, Judeo-Tat, Kayla and so much more... are on the brink of extinction.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Can you make Altaic (or Transeurasian) languages too?

[@Scythian_nomad]

Altaic languages ​​​​is a long-discredited hypothesis that has no confirmation.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@Scythian_nomad There are too many similarities and common words.

[@MYHONESTREACTION400]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Most words seem to be loanwords, sound correspondences are almost inexistent and languages are more different the further back in time you go, so there's no altaic/transeurasian family, it would be a sprachbund at best.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@MYHONESTREACTION400 However, some basic words are also common. Like i, you and 4.

[@MYHONESTREACTION400]

​@@papazataklaattiranimam Having some words in common does not always mean that those languages are related, for example ''anta'' in Japanese and Arabic sound almost identical and means the same thing (you), but that does not make Japanese a Semitic language. When classifying a linguistic family, the gold standards are a large number of swadesh list words and sound correspondences, you need both to prove that those ''common words'' can be traced back to a common ancestor. I am going to give you an example in Indo-European; Dyeus-Theos-Deus-Dios (god). Yes, Turkic,Tungusic and Mongolic languages have very common words, but if you analize them, you'll see those words were shared in different time layers, showing these languages were converging instead of diverging.

[@Nastya_07]

Great! I would like a Nivkh or a Koreanic video next

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@elidesportelli325]

I love the History

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

they sure live in very very snowy frigid place

[@MrNTF-vi2qc]

They expand east because of the Uralics coming east, north because of the Turks coming north.

[@user-sh3cf7kd6e]

That is most likely an entirely INDEPENDENT language family. Just for reference, Bengali and Icelandic are also from the same language family.

[@StefanDruga16]

Why did they start disappearing in the 1200s?

[@king_halcyon]

Tungusic migrations. And later, also the Sakha (Turkic) migrations.

[@CostasMelas]

Correctly, initially the Sakha migration and later the Tungusic

[@born_this_way]

It is so funny that you started from 2000 BC for Yukhagir but 200 BC for Turkic

[@tanhukim9963]

True. 👏

[@micahistory]

interestinf, i never heard of this language family

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@davidenatoli1300]

Hi can do it, the spread of indo europeans languages but armenian hypothesis? thank you

[@Supernimo735]

Is it possible that the Yukaghirs, Inuit, and the Uralics had any contact or are related? What do you think? I think they might be related because they're all Siberian

[@CostasMelas]

most likely for Uralics and Yukaghirs. The inuits are more remote

[@destrovskyj]

eskimo aleutin languages are so different from yukaghir and uralic, for example they are ergative while uralic and yukaghir aren't. eskimo aleutins are also polisintetic (more roots instead of one, like uralic)

[@polishhussarmapping258]

The Uralo-Siberian theory connects Uralic, Yukaghir and Eskimo-Aleut, and there is some evidence.

[@Zerocool91]

Looks like they all left for Canada and became Native Americans

[@japi2k9]

Given the Uralic-Yukaghir hypothesis, I guess once upon a time the proto-Uralic-speaking clans included males who belonged to Y-haplogroup Q1a.

[@Nastya_07]

I doubt that, at least some Yukaghirs carry Haplogroup N like a lot of Uralic peoples

[@japi2k9]

@@Nastya_07 That's also plausible.

[@kazanmakcanbay6676]

Yukhagirs originated from Paleo-Siberians, Mongols and Proto-Uralics. They have Q1a1, N1c1 and C2 Y-DNA.

[@raulrossi9735]

It was born almost in Europe 😮

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

Not really

[@zakaryloreto6526]

Why do so many languages come from Russia? Indo European, Turkic, Uralic, Tunguistic, Aleut, Yukaghir and ect…

[@TheBobVova]

Because it's a huge country.

[@trollgegael]

do khoi-san languages please 🙏

[@elidesportelli325]

And the entire hisotry of the world

[@elidesportelli325]

My real name is Emanuele

[@x-error404alphaepicfellsan9]

Isn't Yukaghir an Uralic language?

[@Nastya_07]

No, but they could be related (Uralic-Yukaghir hypothesis)

[@Thebestman-f1j]

Do y'all think the Yukaghir languages are related to Samoyedic?

[@CostasMelas]

It is very possible

[@baumus8278]

What is your source for them originating in the Yenisei

[@Nastya_07]

He was probably inspired by the Uralic-Yukaghir hypothesis.

[@baumus8278]

But it still doesnt make sense for them to originate on the Yenisei.@@Nastya_07

[@MzKEEKo.]

Awww i feel so bad for them, being pushed further and further away from their homeland by other tribes only to be reduced to a few. That would be mean they were a very docile, non-invading type of group.

[@Nastya_07]

Not sure if their homeland is really where the video puts it, the main reason Melas located it there was probably due to the Uralo-Yukaghir theory, or where Károly Rédei located the first contact between Uralic and Yukaghir, however Uralicist Jaako Häkkinen locates the Yukaghir homeland near Lake Baikal and the Upper Lena.

[@MzKEEKo.]

@@Nastya_07 if Uralic was spoken near the Altaic speakers why is there no cognates or anything related to them other than grammar structure?

[@Nastya_07]

@@MzKEEKo. Well, I showed Häkkinen's view, not mine, he only put Pre-Proto-Uralic near Altaic, but he locates Proto-Uralic in the Central Ural region, and of course there are no Ural-Altaic cognates, it's only a typological zone, and a genetic Ural-Altaic is an idea completely discarded by modern scholars. Plus, it's still unknown when Uralic and Yukaghir first contacted each other, Häkkinen dates the first borrowings to Pre-Proto-Uralic, while Ante Aikio dates the borrowings much later, to Pre-Proto-Samoyedic (and to the honest, I find Aikio's view more likely), but still, both scholars argue against a genetic connection between Uralic and Yukaghir.

[@MzKEEKo.]

@@Nastya_07 I agree that Pre-uralic and the ancestors of Yukaghir had to be sisters.

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

What happened to omok and chuvan

[@CostasMelas]

They disappeared at the end of the 18th century, probably under the pressure of the Chukotkan and then the Russians

[@ГригорийЕвгеньев-д9ч]

​@@CostasMelasвозможно были ассимилированы другими группами юкагиров с другими диалектами

[@danangarifwidodo]

Why they migrated to the east?

[@CostasMelas]

Possible under the pressure of the Samoyeds, maybe and Yeniseian

[@Lp-army1]

What drove them east?

[@CostasMelas]

Possible under the pressure of the Samoyeds, maybe and Yeniseians

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Nobody knows though

[@minimodecimomeridio4534]

There’s no way Yukaghir languages are not related to the Uralic languages. The similarities are simply too many to be considered coincidences. But that’s just my humble opinion as an amateur linguist 🙂

[@king_halcyon]

As a fellow linguistics enthusiast, I agree!

[@CostasMelas]

I also agree!

[@adnan_honest_jihadist5775]

as someone who doesnt believe in coincidences i totally agree

[@SKITNICA95]

maybe part of samoyedic branch or totally independent branch along with uralic languages as part of wider uralo altaic family.

[@destrovskyj]

it can be explained with a sprachbund. uralic and turkic for example has a lot of common but still they aren't related. the similarities can be explained with sprachbund

[@leonardo_fratila]

Such a great video. I think the siberian videos are the best because I know nothing about these languages and it's so mysterious. I would love too se a langueges of siberia video tho!👍🫡 Edit: or maybe a langueges sorrounding the artic circle video with both siberian and north american langueges

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@Da_-pz7zk]

New video🤩

[@PDannyZhang]

It seems like yeinisian stuff