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Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia

Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html

Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
<10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 3

Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.

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Transmission

Transmission 2

Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.

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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
20,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
under increasing interference from Russian, the universal second language of the speakers

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description

in the northeastern river valleys of the Altai region (Russian Altai), divided between the Altai (Gorno-Altai) Republic and Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems
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