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Name: Itelmen
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Itelymem; Western Itelmen; Kamchadal; Kamchatka
Spoken in: Russia
Number of speakers: 380, decreasing. Ethnic population: 3,189 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 100 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 60 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: itl
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Chukchi-Kamchatkan)
Parent Subgroup: Southern Chukotko-Kamchatkan; Southern Chukotian; Southern Chukchi-Kamchatkan (schk)
Child Dialects: Itelmen (itl-ite) Kharyuz (itl-kha) Napanskij (itl-nap) Sedanka (itl-sed) Sopocnovskij (itl-sop) Xajrjuzovskij; Xajrjuzovo (itl-xaj)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Endangered

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