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Name: Koryak

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Nymylan; Korjakische; Chavchuven; Koræiki

Spoken in: Russia

Number of speakers: 3,500 (1997 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 8,743 (2002 census) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 2000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 3500 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: kpy

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Chukchi-Kamchatkan)

Parent Subgroup: Koryak-Alyutor (kory)

Child Dialects: Apokinskij; Apukin (kpy-apo) Cavcuvenskij; Chavchuven (kpy-cav) Gin (kpy-gin) Itkan (kpy-itk) Kamenskij; Kamen (kpy-kam) Palan; Palana (kpy-pal) Paren (kpy-par) Xatyrskij (kpy-xat)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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