Koryak language

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Koryak
чавʼчывэн; чавʼчываелыел
Koryak language in Koryak with transliteration
Native toRussia
RegionKoryak Okrug
Ethnicity7,485 Koryaks
Native speakers
1665, 21% of ethnic population (2010 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Chavchuven Koryak
Language codes
ISO 639-3kpy
Glottologkory1246
ELPKoryak
Pre-contact distribution of Koryak (purple) and other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Koryak is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Koryak (

Alutor and Itelmen forms the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family.[2]
Its native name in Koryak is нымылан nymylan, but variants of the Russian "Koryak" name are most commonly used in English and other languages.

The Chukchi and Koryaks form a cultural unit with an economy based on reindeer herding and both have autonomy within the Russian Federation.

Phonology

Koryak vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ɛ ə o
Open a
Koryak consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
Plosive
 p t c k q
Fricative
 plain β ɣ ʕ
dental v
Affricate
 t͡ʃ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Liquid l ʎ
Approximant
 (w) j

[w] may be an allophone of /β/.[3]

Koryak alphabet

А а Б б В в Вʼ вʼ Г г Гʼ гʼ Д д Е е
Ё ё Ж ж З з И и Й й К к Ӄ ӄ Л л
М м Н н Ӈ ӈ О о П п Р р С с Т т
У у Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ
Ы ы Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я

References

  1. ^ a b "Population of the Russian Federation by Languages (in Russian)" (PDF). Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal Bureau of Government Statistics, in Russian). 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. OCLC 318247422.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  3. ^ Zhukova, 1972

Further reading

  • Bogoras, Waldemar, and Franz Boas. Koryak Texts. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1917.
  • Comrie, Bernard. Inverse Verb Forms in Siberia Evidence from Chukchee, Koryak and Kamchadal. Amsterdam: Bibliotheek v.h. Inst. voor Algemene Taalwetenschap v.d. Univ. van Amsterdam], 1985.
  • Zhukova, A. N., 1972. Grammatika Korjakskogo Jazyka: Fonetika, Morfologia. Moscow: Akademia Nauk SSSR. 327pp. (In kyrill. Schrift).
  • Zhukova, A. N., and Tokusu Kurebito. Basic topical dictionary of the Koryak-Chukchi languages = Basovyĭ tematicheskiĭ slovarʹ kori︠a︡ksko-chukotskikh i︠a︡zykov. Tokyo, Japan: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2004.
  • Campbell, George L. and Gareth King. "Compendium of the World's Languages". 2013.
    ISBN 4-87297-896-X

External links

Koryak language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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