Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Luoravetlan, Chukchee, чукотский язык, Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ, Lyg'oravetl'en jilyjil, луораветланский язык, Sprache der Tschuktschen, Chuchee, Chukcha, tšuktšin kieli, tchouktche,
CLASSIFICATION		Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Chukotkan
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ckt
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Chaun Enmylinskij Enurmin Nunligranskij Pevekskij Uellanskij Xatyrskij Yanrakinot
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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<11,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~15,000
CHILDREN
very few
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
total number of speakers: officially approx. 11,000, but quite possibly fewer

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Chukchee is often thought to be safe, but there are actually very few children speaking the language

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: getting rudimentary among the younger generation, which is completely bi- or monolingual in Russian

Scripts (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

More on Orthography

Chukchee has a written standard (in Cyrillic script), but it is little used in the educational process

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: all over Chukotka, from the Arctic coast to the Bering Sea region; within the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,740
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
15,767
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the ethnic population comes from the 2002 Russian census.

PLACES: Russia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,742
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,000
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
11,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1989

TRANSMISSION
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic script

PLACES: Chukchi District, Koryak District, Lower Kolyma, Republic of Sakha

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,673
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
15,183

DATE OF INFO: 1989

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,095
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
15,223

											[Russia]. 2010. Census. Federal State Statistics Service: http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/results-inform.php		15,223	5,095		1000-9999				Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
0199255911			2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures	Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York				2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.															67.0,-173.0
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	15,767	7,740		1000-9999	Data for the ethnic population comes from the 2002 Russian census.			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Russia;
		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		7,742		1000-9999				Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)						67.6248,176.1767
			2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia				UNESCO	http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html		~15,000	<11,000	1993	1000-9999	total number of speakers: officially approx. 11,000, but quite possibly fewer	Russian	degree of speakers' competence: getting rudimentary among the younger generation, which is completely bi- or monolingual in Russian	Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12	Chukchee is often thought to be safe, but there are actually very few children speaking the language	12		all over Chukotka, from the Arctic coast to the Bering Sea region; within the Chukchee Autonomous District of Magadan Oblast, Russia
				World Oral Literature Project					http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			10,000		10000-99999				Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
070071197X	3	1	2007	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages		Routledge	Abingdon			Christopher Moseley	Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X	ll_pub		11,000	1989	10000-99999				Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13			Chukchi District, Koryak District, Lower Kolyma, Republic of Sakha
9985-936922			1993	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire	Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits				http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook		"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.		15,183	10,673	1989	10000-99999				Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Chukchi

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<11,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,740

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,742

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,000

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

11,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,673

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5,095

Discussion

Chukchi

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<11,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,740

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

7,742

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,000

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

11,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

10,673

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

5,095

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