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Itelmen (autonym: itənmən) or Western Itelmen and formerly known as Kamchadal is a language belonging to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family on the east edge of Russia traditionally spoken in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Fewer than a hundred native speakers mostly elderly in a few settlements in the southwest of Koryak Autonomous Okrug remained in 1993. The 2002 Census counted 3180 ethnic Itelmen virtually all of whom are now monolingual in Russian.

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