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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<50

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

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Older adult speakers

0?

Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

~400

Non-monolingual speakers

all

More about speakers

mean age of youngest speakers: mainly from 60 years up

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

in the forest zone, on the sources of the Kolyma; administratively divided between the Yakut (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia) and Magadan Oblast of Russia; previously in a much wider area in the upper Kolyma region

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems

in the forest zone, on the sources of the Kolyma; administratively divided between the Yakut (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia) and Magadan Oblast of Russia; previously in a much wider area in the upper Kolyma region

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, with massive multilingualism

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

50

Domains of Use

No data

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

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

65.4936,151.0757

Location description

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Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

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

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

130

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Speaker number data: (M. Krauss 1995). Ethnic population data: (M. Krauss 1995, 1989 census)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

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Location description

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Government support

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

65.75,150.833333333

Location description

No data

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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More on context

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Government support

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Other languages used

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  1. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  2. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  3. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  5. UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
    Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
    http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
  6. A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir
    Maslova, Elena. 2003. "A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir." 27: Mouton de Gruyter.
  7. A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir
    Nikolaeva, Irina. 2006. "A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir." 25: Mouton de Gruyter.
  8. Jukagirskij jazyk
    Nikolaeva, I. A. and E. A. Xelimskij. 1997. "Jukagirskij Jazyk." In Jazyki mira: paleoaziatskie jazyki, 155-168. Indrik.