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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 ...
Chukotkan (Chukotian, Chukotic) is a dialect cluster that forms one branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family.It is spoken in two autonomous regions at the extreme northeast of Russia, bounded on the east by the Pacific and on the north by the Arctic.
Four small language families and isolates are usually considered to be Paleo-Siberian languages: [1] The Chukotko-Kamchatkan family, sometimes known as Luoravetlan, includes Chukchi and its close relatives, Koryak, Alutor and Kerek. Itelmen, also known as Kamchadal, is also distantly related. Chukchi, Koryak and Alutor are spoken in easternmost ...
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.It is purported to have broken up into the Northern and Southern branches around 2000 BCE, when western reindeer herders moved into the Chukotko-Kamchatkans' homeland and its inland people adopted the new lifestyle.
It is suggested that Itelmen absorbed a different non-Chukotko-Kamchatkan language. [4] According to the second theory, Itelmen is not related to other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages; common elements are due to contact. [5] Initial comparisons of the basic Itelmen lexicon to Chukotkan show that only a third of the word stock is cognate.
Southern Kamchadal, also known as Southern Itelmen, is an extinct Kamchatkan language of Russia. References This page was last edited on 3 October 2024 ...