The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology And Ethnography
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The Yukaghirs are the last remnants of a somewhat powerful people who formerly occupied all that part of Siberia situated to the east of the Lena, and who were com- posed of several tribes: Omoks^ Anauis, Cheliags, etc.^ It was believed until the last few years that even the Yukaghirs had disappeared, but quite recently lokhelson^ ascertained that there are at least 700 individuals, and that their language, which has no affinities with any of the Uralo -Altaic dialects, is spoken by a certain n...umber of Tunguse-Lamuts (see p. 373), their neighbours. On the other hand, the Yukaghirs of Verk- hoiansk, have adopted the Lamut dialect, and those of the ^ The disappearance of these tribes is more apparent than real. The Anauls, in the neighbourhood of the Gulf of Anadyr, exterminated by the Cossacks in 1649, were only a fraction of the Yukaghirs, as is indicated by the termination " ul " which is found again in the name ** Odul," which the Yukaghirs use to describe themselves. The word ** Omok " means simply people, ** tribe" in Yukaghir language.
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