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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.
extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified Harappan language; small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka is likely an isolate that has mixed with Sinhala.
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.
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 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]
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.
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