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.

More information:

    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.