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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Siberian languages may refer to any languages spoken in Siberia, including: Eskaleut languages , spoken in northeastern Siberia Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages , spoken in Chukotka and Kamchatka
Pagel et al. use a slightly different branching, listing seven language families: Altaic [Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic], Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, "Inuit-Yupik"—which is a name giving to LWED grouping of Inuit (Eskimo) languages that does not include Aleut [clarification needed] —Indo-European, Kartvelian, and Uralic.
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.