Itelmen language

Spoken in

  • Tschuktscho - kamtschadalisch Kamtschadalisch Itelmenisch

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The itelmenische language belongs to the tschuktscho - Kamchadal languages ​​and is spoken in Russia in the autonomous district of the Koryak.

The language is the only language that belongs to the Kamchadal branch of the language family. Today it is highly threatened, as most of the 3,000 Itelmens grow up as a native language with the Russian and the existing speaker of the Itelmenischen most advanced age are.

Since 1986, an alphabet for the Itelmenische exists on the basis of the Cyrillic alphabet.

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