Itelmen (Itelmen: Itənmən) or Western Itelmen, formerly known as Western Kamchadal, is a language of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family spoken on the western...

The Itelmens (Itelmen: Итәнмән, Russian: Ительмены) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly...

the preservation of the Itelmen language. Itelmen speakers and the Kamchatkan government have launched several native language development programs, such...

is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around...

endangered. The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western Itelmen, with only 4 or 5 elderly speakers left. The Chukotkan branch had close...

Southern Kamchadal, also known as Southern Itelmen, is an extinct Kamchatkan language of Russia. Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report...

extensively on the critically endangered Itelmen language. He has participated in the development of an Itelmen-Russian dictionary, its mobile app, and...

known as Eastern Itelmen (or Northern, Northeastern of the same) is an extinct Kamchatkan language of Russia. Endangered languages in Northeast Asia:...

of ⟨ll⟩ in the Welsh language. In the Khanty language, it is sometimes used as a substitute for Ԯ, while in the Itelmen language, it is sometimes used...

Caucasian languages, all South Caucasian languages, and some Athabaskan languages, as well as Itelmen, Quechua and Aymara. Most Salishan languages, the Tlingit...

word for 'fragment', is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ng in English sing as well as n before velar consonants...

Luoravetlan, includes Chukchi and its close relatives, Koryak, Alutor and Kerek. Itelmen, also known as Kamchadal, is also distantly related. Chukchi, Koryak and...

bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...

descendant languages have diverged further from this profile — particularly Itelmen, for which Fortescue assumes substrate influence from a language typologically...

An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...

language, is spoken by about three times that number. The language together with Chukchi, Alutor and Itelmen forms the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family...

related to Koryak. Chukchi, Koryak, Kerek, Alutor, and Itelmen form the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. There are many cultural similarities between...

visited for fishing or hunting. There may have been a small mixed Kuril–Itelmen population at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Ainu of...

1961, he worked at the Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, specializing in endangered Itelmen language of Kamchatka. He received...

of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. It is purported to have broken up into the Northern (Chukotian) and Southern (Itelmen) branches around 2000 BCE,...

Kerek Aleut (including Mednyy) Enets Alutor Negidal Tofalar (Karagas) Itelmen Yugh Nganasan Oroch Chulym Ulch Nivkh Nanai Korean (60,000) Koryo-mar Mandarin...

Munda Tamulic (Dravidian) He left Japonic, Koreanic, Koryak, Itelmen and various languages of the Caucasus unclassified, but suggested that they might...

Cyrillic (Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian), and Itelmen. It was also once used in the Udege language, and in the Lithuanian Cyrillic alphabet. Lje is...

Bashkir, Dungan, Itelmen, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kurdish, Uyghur and Tatar. It was also used in Azeri, Karakalpak, and Turkmen before those languages switched to...

writing systems had a short life. In the case of Itelmen, never was put into practical use. Other languages that received their writing systems during the...

is used in Chukchi and, in some publications, in Itelmen and Khanty. In all three of these languages, it represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative...

Kamchatka, the Itelmens' uprisings against Russian rule in 1706, 1731, and 1741, were crushed. During the first uprising the Itelmen were armed with...

benefits which are given to the Itelmen cannot be given to the Ainu of Kamchatka. The Ainu language is extinct as a spoken language in Russia. The Bolsheretsky...

century, calling it "Kiksha". This is probably close to the original Itelmen language name, from the word "kyg", which means "river". Reka Bolshaya means...

spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It now consists of a single language, Western Itelmen (also called Western Kamchadal). It had 100 or fewer speakers...