Back لغة إيتلمينية Arabic Idioma itelmen AST İtelmen dili AZ Itelmenu kalba BAT-SMG Ітэльмэнская мова BE-X-OLD Itelmen Catalan Итĕлмен чĕлхи CV Itelmenische Sprache German Itelmena lingvo EO Idioma itelmen Spanish
| Itelmen | |
|---|---|
| Western Kamchadal, Western Itelmen | |
| итэнмэн Itənmən | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Kamchatka Peninsula |
| Ethnicity | 2,596 Itelmens (2021) |
Native speakers | 808 (2020 census)[1] |
Chukotko-Kamchatkan
| |
| Cyrillic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | itl |
| Glottolog | itel1242 |
| ELP | Itelmen |
 Pre-contact distribution of Itelmen and other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages | |
 Itelmen is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Itelmen (Itelmen: Itənmən[2]) or Western Itelmen, formerly known as Western Kamchadal, is a language of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family spoken on the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Fewer than a hundred native speakers, mostly elderly, in a few settlements in the southwest of Koryak Autonomous Okrug, remained in 1993. The 2021 Census counted 2,596 ethnic Itelmens, virtually all of whom are now monolingual in Russian. However, there are attempts to revive the language,[3] and it is being taught in a number of schools in the region.
(Western) Itelmen is the only surviving Kamchatkan language. It has two dialects, the Southern dialect of Khayryuzovo and the Northern dialect of Sedanka.
- ^ Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку
- ^ Fortescue, Michael. 2005. Comparative Chukotko–Kamchatkan Dictionary. Trends in Linguistics 23. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- ^ "Our Itelmen Language Cannot Be Separated From Our Land | Cultural Survival". www.culturalsurvival.org. 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2024-10-05.