Some 250 years ago, the Itelmen language spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian far east was in decline and was expected to survive no more than a generation. It proved more tenacious than ...

There’s a small village in Kamchatka with just 3,000 indigenous people who dance nonstop for 17 hours, make clothes from fish skins and are trying their best not to become extinct. About 100 people ...

Itelmen Stories is a poignant tale of the social and personal significance of a language that is near the end of its existence as an orally transmitted means of communication The film presents both ...

The fellowship will support linguistics professor Jonathan Bobaljik’s work using an endangered language to further a universal theory of how language works. The fellowship will support linguistics ...