Talk:Itelmen language
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From teh section on classification: "(...) but also some striking contrasts, especially in the area of phonology". Well, is that a reason to assume that it is unrelated to other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages? When language diverge, the phonology is the first thing to alter. Compare English, Dutch and Swedish, three languages with a totally different phonology. Or compare Welsh, German, Italian and Polish. If you took phonology as a major criterion for language classification it would almost exclede the possibility that these languages are even distantly related. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 13:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
isolate?
editVolodin (1976, 1990) treats it as an isolate, but has anyone else followed? How has his proposal been reviewed? — kwami (talk) 07:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Dialects
editThe article Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages says that Itelmen "includes the Ukä and Sedanka dialects." The "Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages" section of List of numbers in various languages has entries for "West" and "South" Itelmen. Are these the aforementioned dialects? If so, which is which? This should probably be addressed in some way in this article. - dcljr (talk) 04:53, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Bogus Census Data
editA new source, the 2020 Russian census data lists the number of total speakers at 808, a completely unbelievable number considering the language is critically endangered and previous counts only listed about 4-5. Such a jump in speakers is impossible outside of divine intervention. Although there is technically nothing to dispute it other than common sense, I would like to deffer to other Wikipedians on how to proceed. Fjossollkern (talk) 02:14, 24 August 2024 (UTC)