Circumpolar peoples and their languages: lexical and genomic data suggest ancient Chukotko-Kamchatkan-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic connections
George Starostin, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Mikhail A. Zhivlov…·Alexei Kassian
The paper uses lexical and genomic data to show evidence of language and genetic relationships among circumpolar language families, with significant signals for Chukotko-Kamchatkan-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic connections.