Also Known As:
Luoravetlan, Chukchee, чукотский язык, Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ, Lyg'oravetl'en jilyjil, луораветланский язык, Sprache der Tschuktschen, Chuchee, Chukcha, tšuktšin kieli, tchouktche
Dialects & Varieties
- Chaun
- Enmylinskij
- Enurmin
- Nunligranskij
- Pevekskij
- Uellanskij
- Xatyrskij
- Yanrakinot
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
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<11,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 2
Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.
2
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
~15,000
Year information was gathered
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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
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Location Description
all over Chukotka, from the Arctic coast to the Bering Sea region; within 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
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
Chukchee has a written standard (in Cyrillic script), but it is little used in the educational process
Recent Resources
This is one of the editions of an online version of a newspaper that is in the Chukchi language.