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Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Koryak language The Koryak language in contrast to the Chukchi language, and the Alyutor and Kerek languages is characterized by considerable dialectal variety. Lexically the Koryak language is close to the Chukchi language, dialects of the settled Koryak, mainly the Palana dialects are close in their vocabulary with the Alutor language, which is sometimes considered to be a dialect of the Koryak language. The Koryak language nowadays functions as the language of oral communication between representatives of the elder and middle generations, the command of the language in the younger generation is not high. lingsib.iea.ras.ru /en/languages/koryak.shtml   (1815 words)

Itelmens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Itelmen, sometimes known as Kamchadal, are an ethnic group who are the original inhabitants living on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Federation. The Itelmen language (ethnonym: Itelmen) was distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vast majority of ethnic Itelmens being native speakers of Russian. By 1993, there were less than 100 elderly speakers of the language left, but some 2,400 people considered themselves ethnic Itelmen in the 1989 census. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Itelmens   (217 words)

Koryak language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Koryak is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by circa 5,200 people (2001) (Koryak) in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in the region called Koryakia. It is mostly a language spoken by Koryaks. The language together with Chukchi, Kerek, Alutor and Itelmen forms the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koryak_language   (128 words)

itelmen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Itelmen is one of the least populous but one of the most ancient peoples of the North. The Itelmen language is quite unique and although some scientists believe it to be a part of the North-Eastern group of Pale-Asian languages, it has almost no similarities with the Chukchi or Koriak languages. Itelmen believe themselves to be the descendants of the Raven “Kootkha”. www.indigenous.ru /english/people/e_itelm.htm   (429 words)

The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire The Itelmens inhabit the area between Sedanka and Sopochnoye on the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Itelmen is supposed to have separated from the common proto-language earlier than the Chukchi and the Koryak languages. The beginning of academic research into the Itelmens begins with V. Bogoraz, who was active in the 'Narodnaya Volya' movement and was exiled to northeast Siberia where he became a competent researcher of local peoples and their languages. www.eki.ee /books/redbook/itelmens.shtml   (1529 words)

How to save the Itelmen language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) I was born in the village of Sedanka-Osedlaya, Tigilskiy District in 1941. Their motives to learn the Itelmen language differ and their achievements in mastering the subject are not of the same level either. It is most important to make the Itelmen language carriers absorb the idea that they are the last ones so that they will pass on their rich knowledge of the language and culture to people and science. www.raipon.org /english/library/ipw/number8/article8.html   (2184 words)

Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Itelmen language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Spoken on the western coast of the Kamchatka peninsula (Koryak autonomous district and the Magadan region. The surviving "Western Itelmen" was either a dialect or an individual language of the Itelmen branch of Luorawetlan languages, the rest of which became extinct by the 20th century. The Itelmen written language created in 1932 on the basis of the Latin alphabet was later discontinued. www.peoples.org.ru /eng_itelmen.html   (142 words)

Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home The language is still alive, and may continue to be so for a little while, though it is certainly not in a prestige position and especially with the collapse of the USSR and concomittant collapse of the Northern (i.e. In many cases, though language is recognised as crucial to many aspects of culture and identity, indigenous groups find all their resources swallowed up in more life and death matters such as land tenure, employment, health etc. Language concerns may be able to be followed up more singlemindedly once those issues are dealt with. Languages which aren't written aren't known outside their home circles (often have no unique name, even), and has as been pointed out in other discussions on these lists tend to be counted as "dialects", not languages at all. www.ogmios.org /25.htm   (4997 words)

Informational Essays about Kamchatka The Itelmen language is held by linguists to be of a separate family than that of the Koryaks and Chukchis (their neighbors to the north). She puts forth a wealth of interesting similarities between the Itelmen culture and traditional cultures of Micronesia and Oceania – from methods of food preparation, to canoe design, to decorative grass headdresses - in support of her theory. The Itelmen population (represented by dark dots) covered a majority of the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1700. www.avachabay.com /factpages/fact4.htm   (308 words)

East Asian Studies 210 Notes: The Korak The Itelmen, a term which means "living man," are thought to be the direct descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Kamchatka. Traditionally, the Itelmen were mainly sedentary fishermen living in permanent dwellings along the seacoast or beside the numerous small rivers that flow from Kamchatka's mountainous spine down to the Pacific or the Sea of Okhotsk. The dog sled of the Itelmen, Korak, and Chukchi was adapted by the Russians and spread to the Nenets and other peoples of Western Siberia in the 18th century. pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/korakItelmen.htm   (1442 words)

Itelmen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Russian language has been widespread, and the majority of Itelmen to (76.6%) consider it to be their native language. The genetic independence of Itelmen of their Paleo-Asiatic neighbors is emphasized by the phonetic peculiarity of the Itelmen language, which brings it close to the American Indian languages. With the modification of the anthropological type of Itelmen and the Russian old-timers, their language, culture and ethnic awareness were transformed, and the semantics of the Kamchadal ethnonym was modified. www.raipon.org /Web_Database/itelm.html   (1616 words)

[No title] This language is clas sified in the literature in different ways: A. Volodin [}{\fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 Volodin, 1997}{\fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 ] assigns it to nominative languages, but G. Klimov [}{\fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 Klimov, 1973}{\fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 ] considers it to be an ergative one. Such facts as the appearance of elements of the active system in dialects of the Tabasaran (an ergative language), which are absent not only in the languages of neighboring territories, but also in languages spoken at a distance of thousan ds of kilometers, confirm this. Such a considerable difference in the structure of languages fits in well with the opinion of A. Volodin [}{ \fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 Volodin, 1997}{\fs22\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 ], already noted, that the Itelmen language does not have a genetic affiliation with the languages of the Chuktko-Kamchatkan group, their lexical and morphological similarities being the result of borrowing. www.ksu.ru /conf/LENCA-2/214.rtf   (1621 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Itelmens The Itelmen are an ethnic group that live on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Federation. So much "intermarriage" took place between the natives and the Cossacks that 'Kamchadal' now refers to the majority mixed population and the term Itelmens is reserved for persisting speakers of the original Kamchadal language (about a thousand). The Kamchadal language (ethnonym: Itelmen) is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, and together they form the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Itelmens   (157 words)

The Itelmens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The number of Itelmens is now less than 2000, and only about 350 speak the Itelmen language. During the years of the colonization the number of Itelmens was severely reduced and strongly subjected to russification. Traditionally the Itelmens are fishermen, hunters and gatherers. www.stud.hio.no /jbi/bibin/hovedopp/riddu/eng/itelmen.htm   (357 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Caucasian & Paleo-Asiatic You have reached the page on Caucasian and Paleo-Asiatic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. The Caucasian family of languages is spoken in the area of the Caucasus Mountains, roughly in the countries now known as Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It is the language of the native people of northern Japan, being spoken on the northernmost islands as well as on neighboring Sakhalin. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/cauchyph.htm   (786 words)

Ethnologue 14 report for language code:ITL The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). From the 1950s to the 1980s the state sent all children to boarding schools. www.ethnologue.com /14/show_language.asp?code=ITL   (88 words)

Kamchadal: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Kamchadal is the name given to the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka (Kamchatka: more facts about this subject) peninsula. So much "intermarriage" took place between the natives and the Cossacks that 'Kamchadal' now refers to the majority mixed population and the term Itelmen (Itelmen: more facts about this subject) s is reserved for persisting speakers of the original Kamchadal language (about a thousand). The Kamchadal language (ethnonym: Itelmen) is distantly related to Chukchi (Chukchi: more facts about this subject) and Koryak (Koryak: koryak may refer to:... www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/kamchadal   (127 words)

individual book page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) [Itelmen (also known as Kamchadal), spoken in Kamchatka, is seriously endangered. This trilingual (Itelmen, Russian, English) CD is the outgrowth of a collaborative project to preserve the Itelmen language and traditional culture, and is intended to serve both scholarly and pedagogical purposes. — It is based on an illustrated Southern Itelmen school text (vocabulary and phrases arranged by topic) supplemented by selected Northern Itelmen vocabulary, a few texts, and a word list of the local dialect of Russian. linguistics.buffalo.edu /ssila/books/indbook/b260.htm   (189 words)

ODIN results for language Itelmen (ITL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) For those results that indicate Verified as "Highest" or "High", all instances of IGT in the document have been manually verified both to be IGT and to be in the language specified. "None" indicates that the language was not verified, although the instances discovered are IGT. For more information about the language selected, click the language name or language code above and the Ethnologue report page for the language will be opened. www.csufresno.edu /odin/igt_urls.php?lang=ITL   (202 words)

Aboriginal Peoples of the Russian and European Norths - Links to Resources Forest Enets language and Tundra Enets language from Ethnologue The Sami in Sweden from Euromosaic, a study of minority languages in the EU The Sami in Finland from Euromosaic, a study of minority languages in the EU The Sami of Norway by Elina Helander, ODIN Introduction to the Study of Tungusic Languages, by Lindsay Whaley, 1998. www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/nost202/aboppsru.htm   (2639 words)

Siberian Studies Kamshat Publications The aim of this site is to make outcomes from the Itelmen Language and Culture Project more easily accessible. Especially native communities in Kamchatka are invited to download and print out the following electronic editions of earlier publications of Itelmen Language and Culture for non-commercial educational uses. Metodicheskie rekommendatsii (materialy) uchiteliu itel'menskogo yazyka [Methodical recommendations (materials) for the teacher of Itelmen language]. www.siberian-studies.org /publications/itelmenLC.html   (158 words)

EarthWINS Daily The Itelmen are one of the least populous but one of the most ancient Itelmen presence on Kamtchatka peninsula is 5.200 years old. In the 1950th the focible enlargement of Itelmen settlements began. www.earthwins.com /ewd/ewd012298a.html   (2800 words)

ITELMEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Spoken in Koryakia autonomous district and southern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Source: "Das Gebet des Herrn in den Sprachen Russlands" ("The Lord's Prayer in the languages of Russia"), St. Petersburg, 1870. Source: The Gospel of Luke in Itelmen language with verbal translation, Institute for Bible Translation, Moscow 2002. www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-itelmen.html   (56 words)

VIEW ROA 208 Mostly Predictable: Cyclicity and the Distribution of Schwa in Itelmen Even though the language permits quite extensive consonant clusters, I argue in this paper that the alternating schwas (and perhaps all instances of schwa) are epenthetic; schwa is inserted to break up a disfavoured consonant cluster. While it may be possible to devise an account of the Itelmen data in terms of parallel constraint evaluation, current O.T. approaches are insufficient; in particular, the best candidate for an explanation of the Noun/Verb differences (Base Identity) makes exactly the wrong predictions for Itelmen. roa.rutgers.edu /view.php3?roa=208   (158 words)

MavicaNET - Itelmen (Kamchadal) Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Stats: links: 364979, categories: 31681, languages supported: 30 Каталог / Культура / Мови / Isolated Languages (of Uncertain Kinship) / Chukotko-Kamchatkan / Itelmen (Kamchadal) Language UNESCO Red Book on Endangered languages: Northeast Asia www.mavicanet.com /lite/ukr/5443.html   (42 words)

Koryak Language - MavicaNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) UNESCO Red Book on Endangered languages: Northeast Asia - English See the other tables from the former Soviet Union,. Brief information and links on the Koryak language. www.mavicanet.com /directory/gle/1776.html   (36 words)

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