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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

Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<10
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 5

A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.

5
Transmission

Transmission 5

There are only a few elderly speakers.

5

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
0?
Older adults
0?
Elders
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Ethnic or community population
<100
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: rudimentary, with strong interference from Chukchee, the language which has ultimately absorbed Kerek, as well as from Russian, the language today dominant over Chukchee

Location and Context

Countries
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Location Description

previously in a large belt along the Bering Sea coast between the Olyutor Bay and the Anadyr Bay, today only as a relict in a single locality, Maino-Pil'gyn (Mojno-Pil'gino), within the Bering raion of the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan 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
Chukchee, Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems

Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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