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Kolyma Yukaghir (Forest Yukaghir, autonymously Odul aruu) is one of two surviving members of the Yukaghir family of northeast Siberia, sister to Tundra Yukaghir (ykg). Both languages were once part of a larger Yukaghir-language continuum across the Russian Arctic, but the family has been reduced to ~30-50 fluent speakers per branch, concentrated in Nelemnoye village (Kolyma) and Andryushkino (Tundra). Linguistically, Kolyma Yukaghir preserves the Yukaghir typological pattern of focus marking on verbs, complex case system (~9 cases), and rich evidentiality. The 2010 census recorded 1,597 ethnic Kolyma Yukaghir but most are bilingual or L2 in Russian. UNESCO classifies critically endangered.