Kolyma Yukaghir is a seriously endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia. Based on extensive field materials and text records, it provides a thorough and richly exemplified description of all major components of Yukaghir grammar - phonology, morphology, and syntax- annotated sample texts, and a Yukaghir-English vocabulary.

Elena Maslova teaches at the German Department of the University of Bielefeld, Germany and is a visiting scholar at Stanford University.