Chukchi
Americannoun
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Chukchis,
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Chukchi
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a member of a Paleo-Asiatic people of northeastern Siberia.
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the Chukotian language of the Chukchi people, noted for having different pronunciations for men and women.
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a member of a people of the Chukchi Peninsula
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the language of this people, related only to some of the smaller aboriginal languages of Siberia
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As the Chukchi Sea experiences longer periods without ice and the female and juvenile walruses spend more time resting on land, it makes them vulnerable to human and predator activity.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
In a study that has provided clues about how polar bear disease could be linked to ice loss, scientists examined blood samples from bears in the Chukchi Sea - between Alaska and Russia.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
During the summer months, they feed on a smorgasbord of bottom-dwelling invertebrates, such as shrimp-like copepods, that flourish in the mud and sand of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Point Hope, with a population of about 675, was built on a triangular spit surrounded by a large inlet and the Chukchi and Arctic oceans.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
The barren slope stretches for three hundred miles from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, and for more than eight hundred miles from the Chukchi to the Beaufort Sea.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
His ancestors split apart from Chukchis some 5,500 years ago, according to genetic calculations, implying that the Saqqaq people’s ancestors must have traveled across the northern edges of North America until they reached Greenland.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010
Using his genome as a basis, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen determined that the Saqqaq man’s closest living relatives were the Chukchis, people who live at the easternmost tip of Siberia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010
From the bridge to the bow was stretched a large awning, under which the Chukchis were received daily.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
By the Eskimo and the Chukchis the flesh of the walrus is considered a delicacy.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
The natives of whom we saw most at Anadyrsk were, as I have already said, the Chukchis.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
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