Chukotkan languages
Dialect cluster of Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages of northeast Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chukotkan (Chukotian, Chukotic) is a dialect cluster that forms one branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. It is spoken in two autonomous regions at the extreme northeast of Russia, bounded on the east by the Pacific and on the north by the Arctic.
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Chukotkan | |
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Ləɣˀoravetlˀan | |
Geographic distribution | Russian Far East |
Linguistic classification | Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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Glottolog | chuk1272 |
Pre-contact distribution of Chukotkan languages (red-orange) and other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages |
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The term Luorawetlan (Luoravetlan), used for Chukchi in the 1930s, is actually based on the ethnonym of both the Chukchi and Koryak.