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Alyutors
Нэмэлу nəməlʔu | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia
| 482 (2010)[1] |
| Languages | |
| Alyutor | |
| Religion | |
| Shamanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Koryaks, Chukchi, Kereks, Itelmens | |
The Alyutors (Russian: Алюторцы; self designation: Алутальу, or Alutal'u; Alyutor: нэмэлу, nəməlʔu;) are an ethnic group (formerly classified as a subgroup of Koryaks[2]) who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula and Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East. Today most of them live in Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai.
The name also occurs as Olyutors or Olutors,[3] as well as Olyutorka, a settlement where many of the Alyutor people formerly lived.
According to the 2010 Russian Census, 482 people identified as Alyutors, but some estimates suggest that there could be approximately 2,000 to 3,000 of them living in Russia in the present day.[4]
- ^ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ^ Young, T. Kue and Bjerregaard, Peter (2008) Health Transitions in Arctic Populations University of Toronto Press, Toronto, p. 75, ISBN 978-0-8020-9401-8, citing the Russian 2002 census
- ^ Forsyth, James (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 (illustrated, reprint, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0521477710.
- ^ Krauss, Michael E. (1997). "The Indigenous languages of the North: A Report on their present state: Northern minority languages: problems of Survival" Senri Ethnological Studies (Osaka, Japan) 44: pp 1-34; based on the earlier report: Krauss, Michael E. (1995) The indigenous languages of the North: A report on their present state Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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