Korjak language
| Korjak | ||
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Spoken in |
 Russia
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| speaker | 3,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in |
 Kamchatka Region (only in the area of the former Koryak Autonomous Okrug )
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
mis |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Koryak is a language spoken by 3,000 Koryaks, mainly in the former Koryak Autonomous Okrug . The language is a close relative of Chukchi . It has a great wealth of dialects, which in some cases are not mutually understandable.
alphabet
A Latin alphabet was introduced in the 1930s . In 1937 it was replaced by a Cyrillic alphabet without special characters. In the 1950s, four characters were added to the alphabet with an apostrophe: в ', г', к ', н'. A few years later the К with an apostrophe and the Н with an apostrophe were replaced by special characters with hooks. So today's alphabet consists of 37 letters and looks like this:
| А а | Б б | В в | В 'в' | Г г | Г 'г' | 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 |
Web links
Wiktionary: Korjak - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
