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Name: Kerek
Type: Language
Spoken in: Russia
Number of speakers: No known speakers. There were 200 to 400 in 1900 but language now has no remaining speakers. Ethnic population: 8 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 2 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: krk
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Chukchee-Kamchatkan, Chukchi-Kamchatkan)
Parent Subgroup: Koryak-Alyutor (kory)
Child Dialects: Khatyrka; Xatyrskij (krk-kha) Mainypilgino; Majna-Pil'ginskij; Majna-Pil’ginskij (krk-mai)

Endangerment Status


Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct
UNESCO Status: Extinct
Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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