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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<11,000

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<11,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

very few

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

~15,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

total number of speakers: officially approx. 11,000, but quite possibly fewer

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

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Location description

all over Chukotka, from the Arctic coast to the Bering Sea region; within the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems

all over Chukotka, from the Arctic coast to the Bering Sea region; within the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Russian

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

degree of speakers' competence: getting rudimentary among the younger generation, which is completely bi- or monolingual in Russian

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,095

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

15,223

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

7,742

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

67.6248,176.1767

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

11,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Chukchi District, Koryak District, Lower Kolyma, Republic of Sakha

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

7,740

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

15,767

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Data for the ethnic population comes from the 2002 Russian census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,673

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

15,183

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

1993

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

No data

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

67.0,-173.0

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

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Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

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No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

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No data

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Other languages used

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    Kämpfe, Hans-Rainer and Alexander P. Volodin. 1995. "Abriss." 1: Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
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    Skorik, P. 1000. "Grammatika Chukotskogo Jazyka. Volume 1 and 2." Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR.
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  7. A Grammar of Chukchi
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    Bogoras, Waldemar. 1922. "Chukchee." In Handbook of American Indian Languages 2, edited by Franz Boas. 40: 631-903. Government Printing Office.
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    Volodin, Aleksandr P. and P. Skorik. 1996. "Chukotksij Jazyk." In Jazyki mira: paleoaziatskie jazyki, edited by A. P., et al. Volodin. 22-39. Indrik.
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    Skorik, P. J. 1961. "Grammatika Chukotskogo Jazyka. Chast' Pervaja." Akademija Nauk SSSR.
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    Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
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    Dunn, Michael J. A Grammar of Chukchi. PhD thesis, Australian National University, 1999.
  15. Siberian Yupik Eskimo: the Language and its Contacts with Chukchi
    Willem Joseph De Reuse. 1994. "Siberian Yupik Eskimo: the Language and Its Contacts with Chukchi." Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
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    Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
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  22. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
    "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.
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