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Itelmen

Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken in Kamchatka, Russia
Class type of: Kamchatkan Q33624

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Russia[2]
Subclass of
Kamchatkan[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 57.000°, 157.510°, 🗺️ 57.150°, 156.901°, 🗺️ 56.050°, 156.310°
Ethnologue language status
8a Moribund[13]
Indigenous to
Koryak Okrug, Kamchatka Krai[10][11]
Linguistic typology
subject–object–verb, agglutinative language[14][15]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+82, +1[7][8]
Significant person
Stepan Krasheninnikov[12]
UNESCO language status
5 critically endangered[9]
Writing system
Cyrillic script, Ительменская письменность[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Itelmen en Itelmen language en Kamchadal ar لغة إيتلمينية de Itelmenisch de itelmenische Sprache es Idioma itelmeno es Idioma itelmen es Idioma kamchadal fi itelmeeni fi itelmeenin kieli fr itelmène fr Kamtchadale id Kamchadal it lingua Itelmen ja イテリメン語 ja カムチャダール語 ko 이텔멘어 pl język itelmeński pt Língua itelmen
🔖 Identifiers · 22
GND ID
4288171-7
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300388476
BabelNet ID
01550583n
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Itelmen-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
1062
Ethnologue.com language code
itl
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, data.linguistik.de
Freebase ID
/m/06yz4v
GOST 7.75–97 code
ите 240
Glottolog code
itel1242
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2027692, 5229657
IETF language tag
itl
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ISO 639-3 code
itl
KBpedia ID
KamchadalLanguage
Krugosvet article (archived)
gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/ITELMENSKI_YAZIK.html
NDL Authority ID
00564827
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007404550005171
NicoNicoPedia ID
イテリメン語
Topic's main category
Category:Itelmen language
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
476
WALS lect code
ite
Yale LUX ID
concept/375ac902-95d2-4e3d-9947-4a69cd58181e

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 2
Kamchatka Krai, Koryak Okrug
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Linguistic typology 2
agglutinative language, subject–object–verb
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Itelmen nouns, Category:Itelmen lemmas
← Language used 2
Russia, Itelmens
Country 1
Russia
Significant person 1
Stepan Krasheninnikov
Subclass of 1
Kamchatkan
Topic's main category 1
Category:Itelmen language
Writing system 1
Cyrillic script
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Category:Itelmen language
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Summary

Itelmen is a language[1].

Related Entities

Russia Stepan Krasheninnikov

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  1. [2] ↑ . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . news.mail.ru. Retrieved . news.mail.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant person → Stepan Krasheninnikov
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    Country → Russia
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