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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
~3,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 4

Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.

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Transmission

Transmission 3

Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.

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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
0?
Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~7,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: often rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the speakers

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description

on the western tributaries to the lower Ob, mainly along the Sosva, and in the central and northern Ural mountains, within the forest zone; administratively mainly within the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Tyumen' 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:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
There is a written standard (in Cyrillic script), but its use is limited to school textbooks aiming at introducing the language of the older generation to the already Russianized children.

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