Talk:Itelmen language

From teh section on classification: "(...) but also some striking contrasts, especially in the area of phonology". Well, is that a reason to assume that it is unrelated to other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages? When language diverge, the phonology is the first thing to alter. Compare English, Dutch and Swedish, three languages with a totally different phonology. Or compare Welsh, German, Italian and Polish. If you took phonology as a major criterion for language classification it would almost exclede the possibility that these languages are even distantly related. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 13:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

isolate?
Volodin (1976, 1990) treats it as an isolate, but has anyone else followed? How has his proposal been reviewed? — kwami (talk) 07:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Dialects
The article Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages says that Itelmen "includes the Ukä and Sedanka dialects." The "Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages" section of List of numbers in various languages has entries for "West" and "South" Itelmen. Are these the aforementioned dialects? If so, which is which? This should probably be addressed in some way in this article. - dcljr (talk) 04:53, 26 June 2011 (UTC)