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The KoryakLanguage is a KoryakAlyutorLanguage of Russia (Asia). SIL code: KPY. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: 3,500 speakers out of an ethnic population of 7,000 (1997 M. Krauss). Region: Koryak National Okrug, south of the Chukot, northern half of Kamchatka Peninsula and adjacent continent. Alternate names: NYMYLAN. Dialects: CAVCUVENSKIJ (CHAVCHUVEN), APOKINSKIJ (APUKIN), KAMENSKIJ (KAMEN), XATYRSKIJ, PAREN, ITKAN, PALAN, GIN. Comments: Chavchuven, Palan, and Kamen are apparently not inherently intelligible. Bilingualism in Russian. A few children speak Koryak. Taught in school. Coast: fishermen, hunters, inland: cattle raisers. Traditional religion, Christian.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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