Itelmen

Facts

Language: Itelmen
Alternate names: ительменский язык, Itənmən, Kamchadal, Itelymem, итэнмэн, камчадальский язык, Итәнмән’ин крвэӆхатас
Language code: itl
Language family: Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Southern (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: <20
Vulnerability: Endangered
Script: Cyrillic script.

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1950s–1980s the state sent children to boarding schools. Traditional religion.

The ethnonym Kamchadal is also used to refer to the old Russian-speaking immigrant population of Kamchatka, which may or may not have absorbed Itelmen-speaking elements in the past.