• Severely endangered

  80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <500

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  <1,000

• CHILDREN

  0

• YOUNG ADULTS

  0

• OLDER ADULTS

  0?

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  mean age of youngest speakers: unknown, but hardly less than 60 years

DATE OF INFO

1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers

PLACES

Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

in the basin of the river Konda, a western tributary to the lower Irtysh