21. Of these cognates, 27 are common to Indo-European, Uralic, and Yukaghir . 22. When Yukaghir alone is cited, it indicates the Tundra and Kolyma dialects have the same form. 23. It is currently widely accepted that the similarities between Uralic and Yukaghir languages are due to ancient contacts. 24. The Yukaghir negative verb is unlikely to be borrowed from Uralic, because morphological formations are rarely borrowed. 25. Yet no evidence for the Uralic / Yukaghir negative verb formation is found in the Indo-European languages. 26. Greenberg enumerates eight branches of Eurasiatic, as follows : Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo Aleut, Uralic Yukaghir . 27. However, the impressive figure is the 44 Uralic / Yukaghir cognates versus the 35 Indo-European / Yukaghir ones. 28. However, the impressive figure is the 44 Uralic / Yukaghir cognates versus the 35 Indo-European / Yukaghir ones. 29. By the time of the first encounter with Russians, Yukaghir were divided into twelve tribes with around 9, 000 people. 30. Greenberg ( 2002 ) lists 115 lexical cognates for Uralic and Indo-European versus 44 lexical cognates for Uralic and Yukaghir .
