lang_description: "Kerek used to be classified as a dialect of Chukchee, but it has idiosyncratic features suggesting, on the one hand, a non-Chukchee-Koryak (probably Eskimo-Aleut) substrate, and, on the other hand, transitionality towards Koryak; the superficial similarity of Kerek with Chukchee can also be due to secondary Chukchee areal influence on Kerek.",
classification: "Chukotko-Kamchatkan; Chukotkan",
dialect_varieties: "Khatyrka; Mainypilgino;",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:4031,
code_id:2429,
speaker_number: "None",
speaker_number_text: "No known speakers",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "8",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "No known speakers. There were 200 to 400 in 1900 but language now has no remaining speakers. Ethnic population: 8",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:4032,
code_id:2429,
speaker_number: "1-9",
speaker_number_text: "2",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:11425,
code_id:2429,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "~100",
date_of_info: "1979",
public_comment: "'There is no official data on the number of Kereks. In 1934 they numbered 90 (S. Stebnitsky). Since then "about a hundred" has been repeatedly quoted (for example, Soviet Estonian Encyclopedia, 1968, 1979), but no more exact data exists. "Not more than 70" is the estimate given by V. Avorin in 1966. '",
private_comment: null,
source_id:24639,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:13751,
code_id:2429,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:102,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:18771,
code_id:2429,
speaker_number: "1-9",
speaker_number_text: "<10",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: "0",
young_adults: "0?",
older_adults: "0?",
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "<100",
date_of_info: "1993",
public_comment: "In the early 1950s there were still approx. 100 speakers.",