In 1997 two elderly speakers remained, but now the language is extinct, with the ethnic group assimilated into the Chukchi (Fortescue 2005: 1).
1997年，兩位老人依然能夠使用，但現在該語言已經滅絕，克列克人已融入楚科奇人的族群圈裡(Fortescue 2005: 1)。