| LC control no. | sh 85071396 |
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| Topical heading | Itelmens |
| Variant(s) | Itelʹmen Itelʹmeny Kamchadals |
| See also | Arctic peoples Ethnology--Russia (Federation) |
| Found in | Murdock, G.P. Outline of world cultures, 1983: p. 167 (Kamchadal; variant: Itelʹmen) Red book of the peoples of the Russian Empire WWW site, July 9, 2012: Itelmens (The Itelmens use the self-designation itenme'n-itelmen which means 'an inhabitant of dry land, a human being'. Since the first written data in the middle of the 18th century (S. Krasheninnikov), the Itelmens have been known as the Kamchadals, that is, the inhabitants of Kamchatka. The Russian equivalent was derived from kamchalo, the name that was used by the Koryaks for Itelmens. The name Itelmens came into common use after the 1920s, when the self-designations of different peoples were fixed by the Soviet authorities. The name Kamchadal was used to denote russified Itelmens, later it came to denote all the Russian-speaking local inhabitants of Kamchatka. The Itelmens inhabit the area between Sedanka and Sopochnoye on the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. In the 18th century they inhabited almost the whole of the peninsula, but their habitat later decreased considerably. On an administrative level the territory of the Itelmens forms a part of the Tigil District of the Koryak Autonomous Territory in the Kamchatka Region of the Russian Federation.) Ethnologue online, July 9, 2012 (Itelmen; a language of Russia (Federation); alternate names: Itelymem, Kamchadal, Kamchatka, Western Itelmen) Orlowa, E. Itelʹmeny, 1999. |
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