Chukotko-Kamchatkan is a small family of languages indigenous to the far northeastern Siberian region of Russia, comprising the Chukotkan branch, including Chukchi and Koryak, and the now-extinct Kamchatkan branch, including Itelmen. Its languages are spoken by only a few thousand people combined, most of them elderly, and all are considered endangered.
Facts
RegionExtreme northeastern Siberia 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusReconstructed as Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan, per Michael Fortescue's Comparative Dictionary of Chukotko-Kamchatkan (2005) 2 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages
WikipediaLead section, paragraph 1: family location sentence
The Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia.
Lead section, paragraph 1: Chukotkan branch speaker count sentence
The Chukotkan branch had close to 7,000 speakers left (as of 2010, the majority being speakers of Chukchi), with a reported total ethnic population of 25,000.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan Language
WikipediaLead section, paragraph 1: reconstruction statementQuote, Lead section, paragraph 1: reconstruction statement
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.
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