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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.
The Indo-European languages are primarily represented in Asia by the Indo-Iranian branch, with its two main subgroups: Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian. Indo-Aryan languages are mainly spoken in South Asia. Examples include languages such as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Sylheti)
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Tschuktscho-kamtschadalische Sprachen; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Lenguas chukoto-kamchatka
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 ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
A clickable map of the official language or lingua franca spoken in each state/province of South Asia excluding the Maldives. Indo-Aryan languages are in green, Iranic languages in dark green, Dravidian languages in purple, Tibeto-Burman languages in red, and Turkic languages in orange.
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. [8]