Language Information by Source

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
~3,000
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.

3
Transmission

Transmission 2

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

2

Speakers

Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
No results found.
Children:
No results found.
Young adults
No results found.
Older adults
No results found.
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
~5,000
Year information was gathered
No results found.
Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: getting rudimentary among the younger generation, which is completely bi- or monolingual in Russian

Location and Context

Countries
Russia
Location Description

on northern Kamchatka, from the Okhotsk Sea to the Bering Sea, extending to the upper Anadyr basin in the north; administratively mainly within the Koryak Autonomous District of Kamchatka Oblast, Russia

Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all of younger generation
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems

Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
Koryak has a written standard (in Cyrillic script), but education is conducted in Russian only

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