Itelmen - Itelmengo (English spelling) Ительмен/Itel'men

Japanese: イテリメン語 - いてりめんご(英語表記)Ительмен/Itel'men
Itelmen - Itelmengo (English spelling) Ительмен/Itel'men

It is the language of the Itelmen people living in the Tigir District of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug in the western part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Federation, and belongs to the Chukchi-Kamchadal group of Old Asiatic languages. It calls itself Itelmen, but has also been called Kamchadal (Камчадал/Kamchadal). It has become increasingly Russified, and only about 100 people (1989) speak Itelmen out of a population of 2,429 (1989). Nouns are divided into animate and inanimate, with animate nouns changing into 7 cases and inanimate nouns changing into 8 cases. Verbs change into either the objective conjugation with an object or the subject conjugation without an object. watš-anke "to the stone", t-antsp-tseʔn "I teach them".

[Koizumi Tamotsu]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ロシア連邦カムチャツカ半島西部のコリヤーク自治管区ティギリ地区に居住するイテリメン人の言語で、旧アジア諸語のチュクチ・カムチャダール語群に属する。自称はイテリメン語だが、カムチャダール語Камчадал/Kamchadalともよばれてきた。ロシア語化が進み、2429人(1989)の人口に対して約100人(1989)ほどがイテリメン語を話すのみである。名詞は生物と無生物に分かれ、生物は7格、無生物は8格に変化する。動詞は目的語を含む対象活用と、これを含まない主体活用に変化する。watš-anke「石へ」、t-antsp-tseʔn「私が・教える・彼らを」。

[小泉 保]

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