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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Ethnol.) An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also
Kamchadal andKamtschadal . - proper noun The language of the Itelmen people.
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- proper noun A language of the
Chukotko-Kamchatkan family, spoken onKamchatka inRussia .
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Itelmen; but the signification of this word remains uncertain.
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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In Siberia, we have the Itelmen, the Khanty, the Nganasan, the Evenki, the Ket, the Yukaghir and the Nivkhi.
Robert Lindsay 2008
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