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    traditionally were indigenous hunter-gatherers and reindeer-herders. Chukotko-Kamchatkan is endangered. The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western...
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    routes and calving areas. The Kamchatkan reindeer (R. t. phylarchus), a forest subspecies, formerly included reindeer west of the Sea of Okhotsk which...
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  • (Itelmen) branches around 2000 BCE, when western reindeer herders moved into the Chukotko-Kamchatkans' homeland and its inland people adopted the new lifestyle...
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    reindeer found east of Lake Baikal (R. t. angustrirostris); and the Kamchatkan reindeer (R. t. phylarchus). However, since forest and tundra reindeer...
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    from the exonym word 'Korak', meaning 'with the reindeer (kor)' in a nearby group Chukotko-Kamchatkan language. The earliest references to the name 'Koryak'...
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    phylarchus (Kamchatkan reindeer) R. t. platyrhynchus (Svalbard reindeer) R. t. sibiricus (Siberian tundra reindeer) R. t. tarandus (Mountain reindeer) R. t...
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    to each other, compose the Paleo-Siberian languages: 1. The Chukotko-Kamchatkan family, sometimes known as Luoravetlan, includes Chukchi and its close...
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  • Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples in the Russian Far East, especially Kamchatka. It is made of dried fish meat or fish roe mixed with fat (seal or reindeer) and...
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    Chukchi language (category Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages)
    Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. There are many cultural similarities between the Chukchis and Koryaks, including economies based on reindeer herding...
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    Koryak language (category Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages)
    Koryak (/ˈkɔːriæk/ KOR-ee-ak) is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by 1,665 people as of 2010 in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Koryak...
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    hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who lived as nomads in the inland tundra region, migrating seasonally with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name...
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  • tuntu reindeer -ssur -hunt -qatar -FUT -ni -say -ksaite -NEG -ngqiggte -again -uq -3SG.IND tuntu -ssur -qatar -ni -ksaite -ngqiggte -uq reindeer -hunt...
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  • language (also known as Nymylan language), which belongs to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family; however less than 10% of the Alyutors still speak it...
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    language is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vast majority of...
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  • Thumbnail for Kamchatka Peninsula
    to Russian discovery, the peninsula was inhabited by various Chukotko-Kamchatkan peoples (specifically the Itelmen, Koryak, and Alyutor). The southern...
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    island's shape is somewhat like a brain. The local expert on Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Pyotr Inenlikey considers that the name derives from the Chukchi...
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  • Thumbnail for Nivkh people
    presents evidence that Nivkh is related to the Chukotko-Kamchatkans, forming a Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric family, though the evidence was judged to be "insufficient"...
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  • wild deer and mountain sheep. Southern Kereks also practiced small-scale reindeer herding. They also kept sled dogs and collected fur from marine mammals...
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    Okhotsk snow sheep, O. n. alleni Yakutian snow sheep, O. n. lydekkeri Kamchatkan snow sheep, O. n. nivicola Putorana snow sheep, O. n. borealis Chukotka...
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    Northeast Asian languages, including Nivkh, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan. While linguistic evidence points to an origin of these words among the...
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    of the region by volcanic ash. Other animal species in this region are Kamchatkan brown bears, sea otters, and sea eagles (predators of salmon with 2.5...
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    mistakenly translated. Ancient Beringian – Siberia and Alaska Chukotko-Kamchatkan Chukchi, Siberia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), Russia Koryaks, Siberia...
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    control of the habitats of the most valuable sea-otters, the Kurilian-Kamchatkan and Aleutian sea-otters. Their fur was thicker, glossier, and blacker...
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  • 3-head-POSS TR-cut-IMPERF.TR 2SG "You cut its head." Chukchi, a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken in North Eastern Siberia, provides a wealth of examples...
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    This narrative is attested in ethnogenetic myths of the Buryat, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Na-Dené, Bashkir, and Amerindian peoples. Further study suggests that...
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    Bergman, who was in Kamchatka 1920-1922: "Klutchi....is the seat of the Kamchatkan fur trade, and several fur-trading firms have their depots here. The biggest...
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