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<10

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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<10

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

0?

Older adult speakers

0?

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

<100

Non-monolingual speakers

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In the early 1950s there were still approx. 100 speakers.

Year of info

2000

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Location description

previously in a large belt along the Bering Sea coast between the Olyutor Bay and the Anadyr Bay, today only as a relict in a single locality, Maino-Pil'gyn (Mojno-Pil'gino), within the Bering raion of the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia

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previously in a large belt along the Bering Sea coast between the Olyutor Bay and the Anadyr Bay, today only as a relict in a single locality, Maino-Pil'gyn (Mojno-Pil'gino), within the Bering raion of the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia

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Other languages used

Chukchee, Russian

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degree of speakers' competence: rudimentary, with strong interference from Chukchee, the language which has ultimately absorbed Kerek, as well as from Russian, the language today dominant over Chukchee

Dormant

Native Speakers Worldwide

No known speakers

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Ethnic Population

8

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No known speakers. There were 200 to 400 in 1900 but language now has no remaining speakers. Ethnic population: 8

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

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Ethnic Population

~100

Non-monolingual speakers

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'There is no official data on the number of Kereks. In 1934 they numbered 90 (S. Stebnitsky). Since then "about a hundred" has been repeatedly quoted (for example, Soviet Estonian Encyclopedia, 1968, 1979), but no more exact data exists. "Not more than 70" is the estimate given by V. Avorin in 1966. '

Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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Location description

"The Kereks make up a small linguistic enclave near the Gulf of Ugolnaya and Navarin Cape on the coast of the Bering Sea in northeastern Siberia. The administrative unit to which they belong is called the Bering District of the Chukchi Autonomous Territory which is part of the Magadan Region of the Russian Federation. Their habitat is the Artic region with its permafrost tundra and harsh climate. "

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"The Kereks make up a small linguistic enclave near the Gulf of Ugolnaya and Navarin Cape on the coast of the Bering Sea in northeastern Siberia. The administrative unit to which they belong is called the Bering District of the Chukchi Autonomous Territory which is part of the Magadan Region of the Russian Federation. Their habitat is the Artic region with its permafrost tundra and harsh climate. "

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Other languages used

Chucki; Russian

Domains of other languages

"...the language for education and cultural life is Russian"

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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No data

Coordinates

62.25,175.0

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

2

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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
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  7. Kerekskij jazyk
    Skorik, P. I. 1968. "Kerekskij Jazyk." In Jazyki narodov SSSR. Volume 5: Mongolskie, tunguso-man'chzhurskie i paleoaziatskie jazyki, edited by P. Ja. Skorik. 310-333. Nauka.
  8. Imperative in Kerek
    Volodin, Aleksandr P. 2001. "Imperative in Kerek." In Typology of Imperative Constructions, edited by Viktor S. Xrakovskij. 145-158. Lincom Europa.