Chukchi
Palaeosiberian language
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The Chukchi are an intangible entity associated with Russia [1]. No further details about their characteristics, history, or specific attributes are provided in the available facts. The sole documented connection is their link to the country of Russia [1].
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Chukotkan[5]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[6]
- Commons category: Chukchi language[7]
- Wikimedia language code: ckt[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chukchi language[9]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5100[10]
- Native label: Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн йиԓыйиԓ[11]
- Short name: чукотский[12]
- UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[13]
- Indigenous to: Chukchis[14], Chukotka Autonomous Okrug[15], Sakha[16]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CKT[17], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133088480[18]
- Has grammatical case: orientative case[19]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[20]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[21], polysynthetic language[22]
- Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ckt[23], https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/ckt[24]
Why It Matters
Chukchi has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Chukchi is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]