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The Chukotko-Kamchatkan proto-language has been partially reconstructed. [3] Michael Fortescue believes that Kamchatkan may have a substratum of a language formerly spoken by a remnant Beringian population. [4] For instance, Kamchatkan has ejectives, which are common among languages of the Pacific Northwest, but rare in languages of Northeast Asia.
The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western Itelmen, with less than a hundred speakers left. [1] The Chukotkan branch had close to 7,000 speakers left (as of 2010, the majority being speakers of Chukchi), with a reported total ethnic population of 25,000. [2] The language family tree of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.
Chukchi (/ ˈ tʃ ʊ k tʃ iː / CHUUK-chee), [3] also known as Chukot, [4] is a Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The language is closely related to Koryak. Chukchi, Koryak, Kerek, Alutor, and Itelmen form the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language ...
In 1997 two elderly speakers remained, but now the language is extinct, with the ethnic group assimilated into the Chukchi (Fortescue 2005: 1). Traditionally, Chukotkan was considered two languages, Chukchi and Koryak, due to a sharp ethnic division between the Chukchi and Koryak people. However, the Kerek and Alyutor dialects, spoken by ethnic ...
The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia.They are not known to have any genetic relationship to each other; their only common link is that they are held to have antedated the more dominant languages, particularly Tungusic and latterly Turkic languages, that have largely displaced them.
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. It is purported to have broken up into the Northern ( Chukotian ) and Southern ( Itelmen ) branches around 2000 BCE, when western reindeer herders moved into the Chukotko-Kamchatkans' homeland and its inland people adopted the new lifestyle.
Koryak (/ ˈ k ɔːr i æ k / KOR-ee-ak), also known as Nymylan, Korjakische, Chavchuven and Koræiki [2], is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by 1,665 people as of 2010 [1] in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Koryak Okrug. It is mostly spoken by Koryaks. Its close relative, the Chukchi language, is
The Chukotko-Kamchatko-Amuric or Chukotko-Kamchatkan-Amuric languages form a hypothetical language family including Nivkh and Chukotko-Kamchatkan. A relationship between these two language groups was proposed by Michael Fortescue in a 2011 paper. [note 1] He theorized that their common ancestor might have been spoken around 4000 years ago. [1]