Avanata language
| Avanata | |
|---|---|
| Kelavanata • Кэлаваната | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Ethnicity | 1,500 Avanata people (2010 census) |
Native speakers | 50 (2019) 1,000 total |
Language isolate
| |
| Latin script • Cyrillic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | avn |
| Glottolog | avn1243[1] |
| Linguasphere | 43-AAA-a |
 Avanata is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Avanata language [Kɛlɐvɐnɐtɐ], is an endangered language spoken by the Avanata people in the Krasnoyarsk Krai region of Russia. Even though this language is thought to be an isolate, it has been influenced by Russian and Turkic languages over the course of 2,000 years.
According to the UNESCO Atlas of Languages in Danger, Avanata is considered “severely endangered,” with less than 2,000 speakers in total. This language is threatened with extinction as the number of speakers dropped from 1,050 speakers in 2008, to 1,000 in 2010, according to a 2010 census.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | ɛ[lower-alpha 1] | ə | ɔ[lower-alpha 1] |
| Open | a[lower-alpha 2] | ||
Category:Endangered language isolates
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- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "avn". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Search this book on
