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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
About Vitality Level
<50
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.

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Transmission

Transmission 5

There are only a few elderly speakers.

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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
0?
Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~700
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, all the remaining speakers being multilingual in Russian, Yakut, Even, Koryak, and other languages

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description

in the tundra zone, in a belt extending from the lower Indigirka in the west close to the lower Kolyma basin in the east; administratively within the Yakut (Sakha) Republic (Yakutia); previously in a much wider area in the Lena-Yana-Indigirka-Kolyma region

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, Yakut, Koryak, Even
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all
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:
Attempts are currently being made to create a written standard (in Cyrillic script, with either Russian or Yakut-based orthographical principles) for both Tundra Yukagir and Forest Yukagir.

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