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Koryak
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nymylan, Koryak language
Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken in eastern Russia
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Vinony's link graph records 88 inbound references to Koryak, and connects out to Michael Fortescue, Russia and language.
Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages and ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Koryak Okrug
- Ethnicity
- 7,485 Koryaks
- Native speakers
- 1,665, 21% of ethnic population (2010 census)
- Language family
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan Chukotkan Koryak
- Dialects
- Chavchuven Koryak Apuka Koryak Kamen Koryak Paren Koryak Itkan Koryak
- Iso 639 3
- kpy
- Glottolog
- kory1246
- Elp
- Koryak
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Chukotkan
- Country
- Russia
- Image
- Koriak language.svg
Show 5 more facts
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3500
- topic's main category
- Category:Koryak language
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- indigenous to
- Magadan Oblast
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Encyclopedic overview
Koryak (/ˈkɔːriæk/ KOR-ee-ak), also known as Nymylan, Chavchuven and Koræiki, is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by 1,665 people as of 2010 in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Koryak Okrug. It is mostly spoken by Koryaks. Its close relative, the Chukchi language, is spoken by about three times that number. The language together with Chukchi, Alyutor and Itelmen forms the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. Its native name in Koryak is нымылан nymylan, but variants of the Russian name "Koryak" are most commonly used in English and other languages. The Chukchis and Koryaks form a cultural unit with an economy based on reindeer herding and both have autonomy within Russia.
Phonology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koryak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.