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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<2,000

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Language Information By Source

Europe and North Asia
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<2,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

0?

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

There are much fewer than 2,000 speakers, including very few if any children; most speakers are elderly.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

Siberia: spoken in the region of the Kamchatkan Isthmus, including most of Olyutor and Karaga counties and the north of Tigil’ County in Koryak Autonomous District in the Russian Federation.

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Other writing systems

Siberia: spoken in the region of the Kamchatkan Isthmus, including most of Olyutor and Karaga counties and the north of Tigil’ County in Koryak Autonomous District in the Russian Federation.

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Alutor dialects are still used for interethnic communication by many of the neighbouring ethnic groups in central and northern Kamchatka, including speakers of Even and Itelmen.

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

60.2016,165.4238

Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Native Speakers Worldwide

100-200

Domains of Use

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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

2,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

The number of native speakers is decreasing (2000 A. Kibrik). The data for the ethnic population is from M. Krauss (1997).

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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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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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

2000-3000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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Location description

Kamchatka Isthmus in northeast Siberia. Their territory encompasses nearly 15,000 sq. km. stretching from the Karaga Bay of the Bering Sea to Oliutorka (formerly Alutorskoye), and from Rekinniki to Podkagernaya on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea. Administratively, they belong to the Koryak Autonomous District, Kamchatka Region, Russian Federation

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

none

Other writing systems

Kamchatka Isthmus in northeast Siberia. Their territory encompasses nearly 15,000 sq. km. stretching from the Karaga Bay of the Bering Sea to Oliutorka (formerly Alutorskoye), and from Rekinniki to Podkagernaya on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea. Administratively, they belong to the Koryak Autonomous District, Kamchatka Region, Russian Federation

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Koryak, Russian

Domains of other languages

education, cultural activities

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

61.0,165.0

Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150

Domains of Use

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