Kolyma Yukaghir Texts

The data was created by Iku Nagasaki [reseachmap].

Technical aspects of the online search interface were implemented by Alastair Butler (Hirosaki University).


This website provides data of narrative texts in the Kolyma Yukaghir language recorded in 1997 to 2007 in two settlements of the Russian North: Kolymskoe in the Srednekansk District of the Magadan Region and Nelemnoe in the Verkhnekolymsk District of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). The texts were narrated by three Kolyma Yukaghir women: Mrs. Agaf'ya Grigor'evna Sharina, Mrs. Akulina Vasil'evna Sleptsova, and Mrs. Mariya Ivanovna Turpanova. This linguistic material was published in 2015 and 2023 (Nagasaki 2015, 2023). The former publication includes texts transcribed in Cyrillic script with Russian translations, while in the latter each text is transliterated into Latin script and is accompanied with glosses, as well as translations in English and in Japanese.