Alutor
[aka Alyutor, Алюторский язык, nəməlʔu]Classification: Chukotko-Kamchatkan
·severely endangered
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Severely endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<2,000
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0?
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There are much fewer than 2,000 speakers, including very few if any children; most speakers are elderly.
- SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Alutor dialects are still used for interethnic communication by many of the neighbouring ethnic groups in central and northern Kamchatka, including speakers of Even and Itelmen.
- More on Orthography
There has never been a specific Alutor literary language, and the use of written Koryak has turned out to be impossible.
- PLACES
- Russia
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Siberia: spoken in the region of the Kamchatkan Isthmus, including most of Olyutor and Karaga counties and the north of Tigil’ County in Koryak Autonomous District in the Russian Federation.