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to a minimum. The subsequent commercialization of traditional Yukaghir
occupations also pushed the language away from the professional domain.
The educational domain, nowadays associated primarily with the Internet, is
the only one where the presence of the Yukaghir language has been growing.
Initially, Yukaghir speech samples would have been published exclusively in
scholarly publications intended for a narrow circle of specialists. The first
Yukaghir-language edition came out in 1965. A Yakut publishing house then
released verses by Uluru Ado, as part of a book of poems and short stories,
Yukaghirskiye Kostry (Yukaghir Fires).
Yakutia’s government set spelling rules for Yukaghir in an April 28, 1983 decree,
but this did not spur the development of book publishing in the language, with
as few as seven book titles released through the mid-1990s.
In the ‘90s, the Yukaghir language appeared in the media, first in the Gevan
broadcaster’s radio and television shows and, later on, in the Ilken newspaper.
Unfortunately, its presence has not expanded much since then. The Ilken,
with only six editions remaining per year, is the only surviving periodical in an
indigenous language of the Russian North. But its Yukaghir-language content
amounts to an annual 2 pages overall. And Gevan’s broadcasts on Sakha
Channel have now been reduced to two television shows, 30 minutes long each,
and four 15-minute radio shows. Total broadcasts in the Even, Evenki and the
Yukaghir languages come to just two hours per week.
Yukaghir Language in Cyberspace
The Yukaghir language first appeared on the Internet in 2004 when
E. Maslova opened a website featuring Yukaghir-language content. Later on,
A. Nikolayeva launched another website, Kolyma Yukaghir Documents Online:
http://ling.unikonstanz.de/pages/home/nikolaeva/documentation/index.html.
Ms Nikolayeva then proceeded to post a number of Yukaghir-language
materials at Stanford University’s webpage.
The National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has contributed its
bit by opening a Knigakan section on its home page (http://nlib.sakha.ru/elib/
collections.phpcd=60), with a Yukaghirika subsection, where library resources
in the Yukaghir language are posted online. In 2011, the scholar A. Nemirovsky
opened his page in the Live Journal (http://nyoro-2011.livejournal.com/604.
html), to post ample content on the Yukaghir language and culture.
The Yukaghir schools in the settlements Nelemnoye and Andryushkino have
also launched their websites.
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